On the new council, there are four White males – D.C. Council Chairman ... Council in the past, told the AFRO that the lack of gender diversity is no surprise to her. “Black males were allowed ...

A crowded D.C. Council race is again exposing the racial undercurrents of city politics, sparking a battle over who should wield power in a gentrifying place once known as Chocolate City.

Four Black members of the District of Columbia City Council will preside over key committees in the latest session. In a D.C. Council organizational meeting on Jan. 2, at the John A. Wilson ...

Faith Gibson Hubbard, a candidate in the race for the D.C. Council's Ward 5 seat. (Kea Dupree Photography) (Kea Dupree Photography) As D.C. emerges from the covid-19 pandemic of the past two-plus ...

On May 19, 1993, the D.C. government lost one of its early Home Rule-era leaders and most accomplished legislators. D.C. Council Chairman John ... to the predominately black city with the hopes ...

It’s a Monday morning, and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson is standing ... The controversy has sucked up a lot of Mendelson’s time in the past few weeks, and he knows it will consume ...