Navy Yard Community Remembers the Victims of Shooting on Anniversary

Community members held a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the September 16, 2013 Navy Yard shooting in Washington, D.C.

Redskins Name Roundly Criticized as Racist during Smithsonian Event

The Washington Redskins team name was lambasted as “racist” and “demeaning” during a daylong symposium at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

Anacostia River to Receive $5 Million Toward Restoration

The Anacostia will no longer be the region’s “forgotten river” promised Washington Rep. Eleanor Norton as she announced the creation of the $5 million Anacostia River Revitalization Fund.