St. Luke’s in Columbia Heights was DC’s first independent Black Episcopal church, built in the 1870s by minister and radical ...

Hegseth has railed against what he considered "woke" policies like the renaming of military bases named after racist ...

Jimmy Carter was honored at his state funeral in Washington, DC on Thursday. We think of Carter as the man from Plains, ...

Tsedaye Makonnen’s ethereal pillars at the African Art Museum pay tribute to victims of violence and the perils of migration.

The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) celebrated its largest membership ever, with 62 Black lawmakers, while the total number ...

When the sun falls from the darkening Washington, DC, sky, the electric crowd at Howard University appears certain it will ...

S.C., made history on Friday when the new 119th Congress was sworn in, becoming the longest-serving Black U.S. senator.

From 2010 to 2020, the total share of U.S. violent crime victims who were Black increased by 3.2 percent to 32.7 percent of ...

The Washington, D.C. attorney general has ... and the Law,” there has been a long history of under-protection of Black lives. From the rape of enslaved and freed Black women in the antebellum ...

Congress will gather Monday to certify President-elect Donald Trump’s election under the tightest national security level ...

Nesmith native Denise Nesmith Washington has found national fame as The Hair Hat Lady. Her ornate synthetic hair hats and ...

Between 1933 and 1934, Houston enlisted an all-Black team of NAACP lawyers to represent ... while also bringing national attention to the case. Born in Washington D.C., Houston's legacy in the ...