“Through history, we have seen leadership in Congress use D.C. to elevate what they consider to be hot-button issues,” said Bo Shuff, the executive director of the advocacy organization D.C. Vote. “We’ve never seen Congress intervene in how we pave our roads, because that’s not a hot-button issue that will motivate voters.” Explaining the principles […]
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NewsOne Featured Video The Wilson building, which houses the Mayor’s office and the City council chambers in Washington, D.C. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty One step forward, five steps back. This year, the D.C. Council has been dealt an admittedly nontrivial hand. With the end of the Public Health Emergency comes the end […]
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Watchdog finds violations in Park Police officers’ force against media in 2020 Lafayette Square incident | The Hill Skip to content Police block 16th Street in Washington, D.C., near the White House, June 1, 2020. (Getty Images/WaPo) Park Police officers violated policy when they hit a reporter with a baton and pushed another member of […]
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The reforms also ban employment of new officers if they were previously determined by other agencies to have been responsible for serious misconduct, or if they were forced out of previous jobs for “disciplinary reasons.” Nothing radical about having baseline standards for what type of person is allowed to be empowered to enforce the law; […]
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H.G.: Definitely. And, can I just add to this, Congresswoman Hayes, who was Teacher of the Year, out of Connecticut. And Latoya Cantrell, who is the mayor of New Orleans. She didn’t come out of education and teaching, but she came out with a strong identity as a mother and an activist, post-Katrina. I think […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Dalaneo Martin. | Source: GoFundMe Amid an investigation into the police shooting of a Black teenage driver in Washington, D.C., new video footage from the incident shows the 17-year-old father was shot multiple times in the back from the backseat of a moving vehicle. The U.S. Park Police claims its officers found […]
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With the Senate now joining the House in the rejection, and Biden presumably set to finish the task, the rule of a government overseeing 700,000 residents has been wholly subverted by the federal government. Not only is this a complete federal takeover of local government rule (one that seldom happens in any other community in […]
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The statement failed to specifically address Walgreens’ earlier announcement that it would not dispense the abortion pill in 21 states where Republican attorneys general had threatened legal action. Abortion is still legal in more than half of those states. Of the group, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and West Virginia […]
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Moreover, the criminal code reforms did not—as the right wing has claimed and moderates have foolishly parroted—haphazardly reduce criminal sentences. The council tasked with updating the criminal code (staffed by legal experts, including representatives from the D.C. attorney general’s and U.S. attorney’s offices) used data from a decade’s worth of cases to align the code […]
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Other parts of the Bill of Rights seem to fearmonger and imply that parents are never listened to in schools. The bill calls for school districts to consider community feedback when making decisions, allow parents to address school boards, and notify parents of violent activity happening on school grounds. These are already more-or-less standard practices […]
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Georgia Representative Andrew Clyde, who introduced the measure to nullify the criminal code bill, introduced a bill to scrap D.C.’s elected offices last year by citing Covid-19 restrictions on local businesses. “In the near future, we will free Washington, D.C. from the failed experiment of so-called ‘Home Rule,’ and we will return our nation’s capital […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: FG Trade / Getty Howard University has been a driving force behind groundbreaking research that explores the correlation between racial inequities and health disparities. The historically Black university will be able to advance its efforts through a collaboration with Georgetown University. The two Washington, D.C.-based institutions are joining forces for the […]
Read MoreNewsOne Featured Video Karon Blake. | Source: Twitter The arrest warrant for a man who killed a young teenager suspected of auto theft is revealing some of the missing details surrounding a shooting that took the life of a 13-year-old boy in Washington, D.C. Jason Lewis, a city government worker, surrendered on Tuesday and was […]
Read MoreNewsOne Featured Video Source: Karon Blake / Twitter UPDATED: 11:00 a.m. ET, Jan. 31 Originally published on Jan. 9 A homeowner in the nation’s capital who shot a 13-year-old boy to death he suspected of being a car thief is expected to turn himself in and be criminally charged, according to a new report. Jason […]
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