NEWS & POLITICS

Around Monday, October 20, 2025, or Tuesday, October 21, 2025, the total demolition of the West Wing began. Being a native Washingtonian, I’ve watched that whole strip of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue change. Before we go any further, there is a weird irony that took place. On October 13, 1792, the...

For several weekends I covered every ward in Washington D.C. passing out flyers to promote the DC Voice’s Summer Essay Contest–from churches to libraries, and even strangers on the street. I would even have given one to the National Guard … if I could find one. So, my question is,...

I was in Ward 8 this Saturday when this mural jumped off the wall at me. We’ll pursue the meaning and the artist in a future post but I felt compelled to share this image based on the impact it had on me. If a picture is worth a thousand...

“I’ve been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagues me after James Baldwin died,” wrote the late Toni Morrison. “Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates.” These words appeared as a blurb in support of Coates’ landmark 2015 monograph Between the World and Me. The book, much like Baldwin’s best-known...

Reporting by Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY Network Jennifer Lilintahl said she knew her 5-year-old daughter wasn’t ready to learn how to read with other kids her age in the kindergarten classes last school year at Lafayette Elementary School in the Chevy Chase neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Although her daughter was...

The 2020 murder of George Floyd at the hands of police sent a cultural shockwave through the United States. It was, in fact, a focal point of the American “culture wars” that are still being waged today. Floyd’s murder sparked countless protests and counterprotests throughout the country, placed discussions about...

In 2011, one year before the 2012 election, Donald Trump began to sow completely unreasonable doubt in the veracity of President Barack Obama’s listed place of birth, Honolulu, Hawaii. Trump, who had not yet been president but was perhaps planting the seeds of his forthcoming far-right future, would allege for...

Election Context and Controversy On July 15, Trayon White Sr. narrowly won reelection to the D.C. Council, defeating Sheila Bunn, Mike Austin, and Salim Adofo in a four-way, low-turnout race with fewer than 6,800 ballots cast. White received 2,277 votes (28.1%), just ahead of Bunn with 2,019 (24.9%), Austin with...

One of the year’s most contentious debates in the District seemed to be settled on August 1, when the DC Council approved the landmark deal to bring back Washington football. In a 9-3 vote, the Council gave the green light to the $3.7 billion deal that would redevelop the defunct...

On October 23, 2020, Metropolitan Police Department officer Terence Sutton initiated an unauthorized police pursuit that killed Karon Hylton-Brown, a twenty-year-old African American father to an infant. For ten full minutes, Sutton followed Hylton-Brown in an unmarked car at speeds prosecutors called “unreasonable.” Hylton-Brown was riding a rental scooter without...