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Mark Washington, currently a barber, is now working to achieve upward economic mobility by becoming a software engineer without a four-year degree. (Courtesy of Dominion Energy)

Dominion Energy’s Career Expo Targets Men of Color

by WI Web Staff February 13, 2023February 13, 2023

**FILE** Metropolitan Police Department vehicles (Courtesy photo)

MPD to Increase Presence at Metro Stations

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. February 10, 2023February 10, 2023

House Votes to Overturn Two D.C. Laws

by WI Web Staff February 10, 2023February 10, 2023

**FILE** Princess Bajrakitiyabha (IAEA D. Gjakoni Sanhueza via Wikimedia Commons)

Thai Princess’s Coma Due to Infection; Country Not Banning Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine

by Catalina Jaramillo, FactCheck.org February 10, 2023February 10, 2023

Linda Harllee Harper speaks during a Feb. 9 press conference announcing her appointment as executive director of D.C.'s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement.

D.C.’s Gun-Violence Prevention Director Tabbed to Lead Office of Neighborhood Safety

by WI Web Staff February 9, 2023February 9, 2023

**FILE** Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia Republican (Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons)

White House Exposes Republicans’ Plan to Gut Social Security, Medicaid

by Stacy M. Brown February 9, 2023February 9, 2023

Langston Tingling-Clemmons, affectionately called Mr. TC, is an 8th and 9th grade U.S. history teacher at Jefferson Academy. He graduated from Bucknell University with a bachelor's degree in history and Spanish. He also has a master’s degree from Lehigh University in education. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

D.C. Educators Continue Efforts to Update Social Studies Standards

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. February 9, 2023March 1, 2023

Tyre Nichols, 29, was fatally beaten by the police on Jan. 7. (Courtesy photo)

Seven Additional Police Officers Facing Discipline After Tyre Nichols Beating Death

by Stacy M. Brown February 9, 2023February 9, 2023

On Jan. 21, several ANC commissioners converged on Deanwood Recreation Center in Northeast for a public safety meeting that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), standing next to Acting Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice Lindsey Appiah, hosted. (Courtesy of the Mayor's Office)

ANC Commissioners Demand More of an Expanding Office

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. and Kayla Benjamin February 8, 2023February 10, 2023

The officers and members of the first fully African American fire company in Washington, D.C., stand for a commemorative portrait outside their fire station in 1919.

The Hornet’s Nest: Washington, D.C.’s First African American Fire Station

by Roland Hesmondhalgh, Special to The Informer February 8, 2023February 9, 2023