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Community, Election 2024

Council Member Lewis George Faces Two Challengers in Reelection Bid

by Sam P.K. CollinsMarch 27, 2024April 24, 2024

Questions About Campaign Finances, Ward 7 Dems’ Influence Dominate Council Race

by Sam P.K. CollinsMarch 27, 2024March 28, 2024

Aziza McClain-Baxter, a 12th grader at BASIS DC Public Charter School, emerged as the winner of the Marion Barry Jr. Youth Oratorical Contest that took place on March 24. (Courtesy of Ron Thomas)

Seven Students Participate in Marion Barry Jr. Youth Oratorical Contest, Winner Emphasizes Voting, Advocacy

by James Wright Jr.March 27, 2024March 27, 2024

The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed early Tuesday morning after a colossal ship clashed with the structure, unleashing chaos in Baltimore and tragedy for at least seven families. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)

Community, Stacy M. Brown

Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge Destroyed in Collision with Container Ship

by Stacy M. BrownMarch 26, 2024March 26, 2024

Overextended Parents Fight for Public Investments in Early Childcare

by Sam P.K. CollinsMarch 20, 2024March 20, 2024

DeAngelo Green and T'Anita Coles-Green (Courtesy photo)

Widow of Man Killed in D.C. Fire Truck Crash Celebrates $13.5 Million Judgment

by Sam P.K. CollinsMarch 20, 2024March 26, 2024

Brothers from Florida check out the cherry blossoms with their parents, who booked the D.C. family vacation after a planned class trip was canceled. “I’m lucky that we came in the spring… I really loved to see all of this,” Dory Pardieu, 10, said. (Kayla Benjamin/The Washington Informer)

Community, Environment

Longer Cherry Blossom Bloom Expected After Record Early Peak

by Kayla BenjaminMarch 20, 2024March 20, 2024

**FILE** MPD Chief Pamela A. Smith and the Bowser administration are part of nationwide efforts to recruit more women as law enforcement officers. (WI photo)

MPD Convenes First-Ever Women’s Conference

by James Wright Jr.March 20, 2024March 20, 2024

**FILE** Changing his affiliation from Democrat to the D.C. Statehood Green Party, grassroots activist Kymone Freeman is working to unseat D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton in the November general election. (Ja’Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer)

Two Delegate Norton Challengers Take Fight to General Election: Brown and Freeman

by Sam P.K. CollinsMarch 20, 2024March 20, 2024

Civil rights activist Dorie Ladner, pictured at a Freedom Orientation in Ohio in June 1964, died on March 11 in Washington, D.C. She was 81. (Courtesy of SNCC Digital Gateway, Herbert Randall Freedom Summer Photographs, USM)

Black History, Hamil R. Harris, Obituary

Remembering the Life of Civil Rights Activist Dorie Ladner

by Hamil R. HarrisMarch 18, 2024March 19, 2024