Although there was, in fact, a March for Racial Justice on Saturday in Washington, D.C., there was also a rally specifically for, about and led by black women: the March for Black Women, sponsored by the Black Women’s Blueprint, Black Youth Project 100 and Trans Sisters of Color Project.
Is there anything as touching as a family reunited? Melania and Barron Trump have officially joined the family patriarch in the White House, and everybody looks thrilled!
Tina Frundt’s story is one of survival. When she was 13 years old and living in Chicago, she met a man, who was about 15 years older than she was, while she was on her way to a store. The man, known as “Tiger,” basically groomed Frundt by befriending her and showering her with gifts.
In August, the Washington D.C. Public School System opened Ron Brown College Preparatory High School, a 100-student all-boys school, specifically aimed to help black and Latino students with academic achievement as part of a tax-funded “Empowering Males of Color” initiative. The school system will reportedly not be…
Last night, our meathead-in-chief headed to the Trump Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C. for a steak dinner at the BLT Steakhouse. And wouldn’t you know that he managed to make it completely unappetizing!
There’s no denying that, over the past decade and a half, music has opened up. The internet’s made way for genre explorations and collaborations that, before, might have never seemed possible; it’s obliterated regionalism (and perhaps territorialism), given global music acolytes access to the micro-est of genres,…
WASHINGTON, DC—Bright and quite early in the morning after the D.C. Women’s March, 500 women considering seeking political office attended a “Getting Ready to Run” training at the Grand Hyatt Washington hosted by EMILY’s List, by far the largest training event in the pro-choice PAC’s 31-year history.
We did not spend long talking to the women of Flint, Michigan, at the Women’s March on Washington, because our conversation kept being interrupted: they were, simply, too popular with attendees who kept coming over to offer hugs and take photos.
Nobody on the roads
In an interview with the New York Times last night about Meryl Streep’s scathing Golden Globes speech (“as if Meryl Streep and others could read my mind”), President-Elect Donald Trump claimed that actually, so many celebrities and regular people are coming to his inauguration that all the “dress shops” in Washington,…
On Sunday, a 28-year-old man from Salisbury, North Carolina, fired shots inside a pizzeria in northwest Washington, D.C. Armed with an assault rifle, he later told police he wanted to “self-investigate” a fraudulent election conspiracy theory connected to Hillary Clinton.
On Saturday, the National Policy Institute (NPI), an organization aligned with the “alt-right” movement, assembled in Washington, D.C. to celebrate Donald Trump’s election to the presidency. They were met with vehement protest by hundreds of D.C. locals, who marched down Pennsylvania Avenue to condemn the group’s…
At rallies across the United States today, women will call for GOP leaders to un-endorse Donald Trump and reject his racist, xenophobic, pussy-grabbing rhetoric. In New York, protesters dressed in black amassed outside Trump Tower early this morning, shouting, “GOP, hands off me!” and “Donald thinks he runs this town,…
The Hill’s annual ‘50 Most Beautiful’ list is up—an important reminder to us all that even in D.C., people are attractive.
In what threatened to be yet another nightmarish scenario involving a gun, the U.S. Capitol building and visitor center was on lockdown beginning around 9 am Friday morning following reports of an armed woman; individuals were told to “shelter in place.” The lockdown has since been lifted, and Republicans are free to…
The Obama family has settled on their post-White House residence, which means it’s time to pass judgment on their choice.
The White House has reportedly been put on lockdown after shots were fired nearby Friday afternoon. Initial reports indicated the shooting occurred on W. Executive Drive, the street located immediately next to the West Wing and inside the White House’s gates, but NBC News is now reporting, per police, that someone was…
Virginia McLaurin, the 107-year-old dancing kween who captured hearts back in February when she danced with the Obamas in the White House, is reportedly unable to obtain a government-issued photo ID.
A shooting has been reported at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center; there are scant details right now, but local media are reporting that several people were injured and the shooter has been caught. U.S. Capitol employees are being told to shelter in place.
Washington D.C. police are investigating a report that a female student was raped by a male student on the campus of prestigious private school Sidwell Friends.
