Shaniah Boyd is among the Black and Latina girls missing in Washington, D.C., police say.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is pulling all the stops to locate the dozens of missing Black and brown girls in her district. Just a week after the mayor released a six-point plan to address traumatic case, which reportedly had been conceived of in January, Bowser distributed a broad outline of the plan, including more than half a million […]
An Instagram post announcing that 14 black girls went missing in D.C. within a 24-hour period sent people into a tizzy. Celebrities such as Taraji P. Henson, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, LL Cool J and Gabrielle Union began posting about the missing Black girls in D.C. Soon, the Congressional Black Caucus was involved and called for the FBI to investigate. That's not all. Press conferences were held and demands made for authorities to pay more attention to the plight of missing black women in D.C. Problem was, the information was incorrect.
The nation is still up in arms after 14 girls have been pronounced missing in Washington, D.C. within 24 hours. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced on Friday that the city will dedicate more resources including a task force to help find missing youth in the District. According to The Washington Post, Bowser will increase the number of […]
Much of the mainstream media has failed to cover missing Black and Latinx girls in the nation's capital.
The day has come. Donald J. Trump is officially President of the United States of America. Here's Twitter's reaction.
On January 21, 2017, one day after the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, thousands are expected to gather in Washington D.C., in yet another march for women's rights.
The women's march, reportedly the largest protest surrounding Trump’s inauguration, is slated to take place on January 21, a day after he is sworn into office.
Arcan Cetin, the 20-year-old man suspected of killing five people on Friday, has admitted responsibility to detectives. Cetin, a Turkish-born immigrant to the United States, had a recent falling out with his father several hours before he emerged at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington, however a motivation for the killing has not been given. Cetin was […]
Faced with D.C.'s sky-rocketing rent and surges in the price of living, Tyree's mother lost her job. The family was forced to make the difficult decision to move into the shelter, which houses around 243 people.
Sometimes, we all need someone to lean on. A group of employees from a Washington coffee shop provided just that in a touching photo that’s gone viral. KPTV reports that Pierce Dunn and Evan Freeman from the Dutch Bros. coffee shop in Vancouver, WA were photographed praying with a grieving customer who lost her husband the evening before. […]
The discovery of racially coded notes taken by prosecutors during jury selection is forcing the Supreme Court to take a second look at this murder trial, The Washington Post reports.
