(November 20, 2009) - Hardworking District of Columbia residents are continually being forced out the city in search of more affordable housing. According to a report issued earlier this month by the Urban Land Institute, there is currently a shortage of 40,000 housing units available to workforce households near each of the District’s 16 employment cores.

(November 19, 2009) - HIV/AIDS is a condition at the heart of the Black community. While AIDS is the No. 1 killer of African-American males ages 25 to 44, it has also become a leading cause of death among Black females between the ages of 15 and 44.

(November 18, 2009) - The brazen shooting death two weeks ago of a young African-American male on a busy northeast Washington street has suggested that officials might need to revisit an initiative the city put into place over the summer to reduce violent crime.

(November 18, 2009) - WASHINGTON — Hundreds of student scientists from across the nation gathered at Howard University for the fifth annual National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Educational Partnership Program to discuss the latest developments in the environmental sciences and to demonstrate their own studies. The event took place Nov. 12, 13 and 14.

(November 18, 2009) - Putting some 15 million Americans back to work has been a key focus behind President Barack Obama's $787 billion economic recovery plan.

(November 18, 2009) - Nearly three years ago, when Adrian Fenty assumed the mayor's job, the District had suddenly become a city teeming with the promise of new beginnings, buffered with a vitality unlike any of its residents had ever seen.

(November 11, 2009) - Most people know Pastor Deron Cloud as the charismatic and dynamic leader of The Soul Factory, a church with locations in Capitol Heights, Md., and Atlanta that uses theatrical arts and a hip hop gospel message to attract thousands of young people to the Christian faith.

(November 11, 2009) - WASHINGTON — The silence was deafening at the H1N1 vaccination clinic at Washington’s Kelly-Miller Middle School. Idle nurses looked bored. The school’s gymnasium, the location of the vaccination site, echoed the emptiness Saturday morning as medical personnel and technicians vaccinated the handful of patients who showed up.

(November 11, 2009) - The way City Council Chairman Vincent Gray sees it, the 338 teachers who lost their jobs last month after the schools chancellor opted to save her 2010 summer school program, need to be reinstated —particularly those who had good or satisfactory evaluations.

(November 11, 2009) - COLLEGE PARK, Md. — More than 600 students protested at the University of Maryland, College Park last week when the firing of a diversity administrator sparked outrage.

(November 11, 2009) - It was a quiet and somber event. So still, Dena Potter, Associated Press reporter and media witness, told the AFRO, that the sound of a stomach growling among the witnesses was clearly heard.

(November 11, 2009) - WASHINGTON — They came from Canada, the Bahamas, Texas and other places all over the United States. They came with one goal: To let their voice be heard.

(November 4, 2009) - In a tension filled City Council chamber, District of Columbia Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee sought repeatedly on Oct. 29 to explain her decision to sacrifice the jobs of more than 300 teachers rather than make cuts to her 2010 summer school program.

(November 4, 2009) - At-large Councilmember Kwame Brown has expressed gratitude to a Newsweek.com blogger over a recent retraction regarding apartheid in the District of Columbia.

(November 4, 2009) - Miracle Hands Community Development President Cornell Jones says a report in The Washington Post which accused his organization of misusing grant money from the D.C. Health Department AIDS Administration is “filled with inaccuracies, false and misleading statements.”

(November 4, 2009) - Joblessness in the nation’s capital is a serious issue. 
According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report, as of August, the District of Columbia was among 14 states in which at least one-tenth of the work force was unemployed.

(November 4, 2009) - Like most teens, Ayrricka Street, 13, likes money. She also likes school, in part because that’s where the money is.

(October 28, 2009) - WASHINGTON – They sat in the same hearing room, one close enough to touch the other. However, the beliefs of those who support same-sex marriage in the District of Columbia and those who are against it were so far apart they might as well have been seated in different states.

(October 28, 2009) - WASHINGTON – Eighteen years ago, they were the talk of the town, of much of the nation even. As they exited their mother’s womb at Howard University Hospital, Makiri, Raziya, Marjani, Makesi and Dakarai Smith became only the second set of quintuplets born in the nation’s capital.

(October 28, 2009) - In the two years that she has been at the helm of the District of Columbia Public Schools, Chancellor Michelle Rhee, 39, has streamlined the central office so more money could be poured into the schools.