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Protesters gather at Trump Hotel for 'Save the Post Office Saturday' 08/22/2020 11:29pm • More than 100 people gathered outside of Trump International Hotel in Northwest, the site of The Old Post Office downtown, as part of a nationwide effort to demand action to keep mail-in voting safe. The protest, organized by MoveOn.org was part of a larger effort nationwide as people gathered ac Experts say coronavirus pandemic is now 3rd leading cause of death for Black Americans 08/16/2020 06:46pm • A new report from the Brookings Institution on the impacts of the novel coronavirus on Black households found that the pandemic is the third leading cause of death for Black Americans. One of the major contributing factors lies in the fact that Black Americans disproportionately live in states th Struggle for the right to vote didn't end with 19th Amendment ratification a century ago 08/16/2020 04:35pm • Women’s rights advocates celebrate two important dates in the coming weeks: Aug. 18 marks 100th anniversary of Tennessee approving the 19th Amendment, and Aug. 25, when the amendment officially became a part of the U.S. Constitution. Colleen Shogan, the Senior Vice President and Director of the From hilltop to VP candidate: Howard congratulates alumna Kamala Harris on nomination 08/12/2020 10:48am • When Joe Biden selected California Sen. Kamala Harris to be his running mate for the Democratic presidential bid, she became the nation's first Black and South Asian American woman on a major party's ticket. The historic nomination was not lost on Harris' undergraduate alma mater, D.C.'s Howard U U.Md. students plan protest over lease agreements during pandemic 08/10/2020 09:53am • University of Maryland College Park students will protest Tuesday against being bound to fall semester lease contracts for dorms they won't live in out of coronavirus safety concerns. Students citing health and safety have found themselves protesting an inability to terminate expensive lease agre Man dead after hit-and-run on US-50 08/10/2020 06:03am • A man is dead after a hit-and-run crash in Cheverly, Maryland, late Sunday night. Maryland State Police determined a driver in a black Ford Fusion was headed westbound on U.S. Route 50 near Columbia Park Road around 11:30 p.m. Monday, when the driver struck a man walking on the shoulder of the ro DC fire dept.: Units were sent toward wrong site in Potomac River drowning 08/09/2020 02:53pm • When additional EMS units were sent to help in the search for three men who had fallen off a boat into the Potomac River earlier this month, they were initially given an address that was more than four miles from the actual scene. D.C.’s Office of Unified Communications said in a statement Sund Historians draw comparisons between victims of 1918 H1N1 pandemic, modern coronavirus 08/02/2020 03:58pm • In this 1918 photo made available by the Library of Congress, volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tend to influenza patients in the Oakland Municipal Auditorium, used as a temporary hospital. (Edward A. "Doc" Rogers/Library of Congress via AP) As the world continues to grapple with the Woman killed, 3 others seriously injured in 4-car Montgomery Co. crash 07/28/2020 04:05pm • One woman was killed and three other people were seriously injured in a four-car crash Tuesday morning on Maryland 28/West Montgomery Avenue near the ramp for Interstate 270 in Rockville, Maryland. The crash closed part of Maryland 28 and snared traffic in the area for several hours Tuesday as au ShutDownDC rallies in Alexandria at the home of acting secretary of Homeland Security 07/27/2020 02:45am • Protesters in Alexandria, Virginia in front of the home of acting DHS secretary Chad Wolf on July 26. (WTOP/Andrea Cambron) A crowd gathered outside the home of Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of Homeland Security, in Alexandria, Virginia, on Sunday afternoon to protest the recent controversial Smithsonian's accessibility director works to improve museum experience for everyone 07/26/2020 08:29pm • July 26 marked the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and through the decades, the Smithsonian museums have made some major changes to create a more inclusive space. Ensuring accessibility to the museums for everyone is Beth Ziebarth's main mission. Ziebarth is the direct Annapolis mural dedication for Breonna Taylor delayed due to crowd size restrictions 07/26/2020 11:45am • A ground mural depicting a portrait of Breonna Taylor is seen at Chambers Park, Monday, July 6, 2020, in Annapolis, Md. The mural honors Taylor, a 26-year old Black woman who was fatally shot by police in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment. The artwork was a team effort by the Banneker-Douglass Mu 1 dead in Waldorf crash 07/21/2020 11:22am • One person is dead Tuesday following a crash in Charles County, according to Maryland State Police. Authorities said an SUV went off the road just after 7:30 a.m. It fell down an embankment and overturned on Md. 229/Bensville Road near Courtney Drive in Waldorf. The person died on the scene. 4-year-old girl wounded in DC shooting 07/21/2020 09:55am • Police in D.C. said a 4-year-old girl was wounded in an early Tuesday morning shooting in Northeast. Police said the shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. on East Capitol Street near Minnesota Avenue in the Fort Dupont neighborhood. A woman also was shot. It is unclear if the two are related. Eviction fears prompt faith leaders to ask Va. Gov. Northam to intervene 07/19/2020 07:44pm • Virginia faith leaders addressed Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam at a virtual news conference on Sunday where they asked him to hold off on evictions so they can help inform residents about the assistance and protections in place to keep people in their homes who have been unemployed due to the coronavi