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**FILE** A family celebrates the birthday of a child. (Photo by Education Images/UIG via Getty Images)

Community, D Kevin McNeir

Rising Costs Forcing Many Seniors to the Edge

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor September 5, 2018October 31, 2020

A visitor looks at the Anacostia Unmapped 2.0 exhibit on display at the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities building in Southeast. (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)

‘Anacostia Unmapped 2.0’ Spotlights Historic Neighborhood

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. September 5, 2018October 31, 2020

D.C. Sees Record 22.8M Visitors in 2017

by Sarafina Wright –Washington Informer Staff Writer September 5, 2018October 31, 2020

Courtesy of D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development

HPTF Financing to Preserve Affordable Housing for Residents in Wards 4, 7

by WI Guest Author September 4, 2018October 31, 2020

Hundreds of Black men, women and children converged Saturday afternoon on Upshur Recreation Center in northwest D.C. on during Cease Fire, Don't Smoke the Brothers and Sisters' 11th annual cookout and amateur boxing tournament. (Courtesy photo)

Nonviolence at the Center of Annual Cookout

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. August 29, 2018October 31, 2020

Courtesy of teachingafricaday.com

Teaching Africa Day to Hold Its 4th Annual Event

by WI Guest Author August 28, 2018October 31, 2020

Ozro Wells

Ozro Wells, Former Bar Association President, Dies

by WI Guest Author August 27, 2018October 31, 2020

Community, Photo Galleries

60th Anniversary of Ben’s Chili Bowl (Photos by Mark Mahoney)

by WI Webstaff August 24, 2018October 31, 2020

Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 President Jackie Jeter rallies union workers gathered at Metro Center in northwest D.C. on Aug. 16 to protest the actions of Washington Area Metro Transit Authority days earlier when White nationalists rallied in the city. (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)

Metro Workers Entitled to Increase Wages, Panel Rules

by William J. Ford August 22, 2018October 31, 2020

St. Elizabeths Campus in Southeast (Courtesy photo)

D.C. Residents, Public Officials Demand Answers About Hospital

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. August 22, 2018October 31, 2020