For more than 30 years until his death in 2000, Calvin Woodland devoted himself to the children of his struggling Anacostia neighborhood with missionary zeal, founding sports teams to keep them ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, the Anacostia River was supposed to be open Saturday for swimming, just for the day, to demonstrate a quarter-century of progress to clean it up.

The Trump administration is proposing to eliminate separate funding for the Smithsonian’s long-planned National Museum of the American Latino on the National Mall, as well as the Anacostia ...

One man was killed and five more injured after witnesses say a driver ran a stop sign in the Anacostia neighborhood of Southeast Washington Sunday afternoon. The crash happened just before 3 p. m ...

The Anacostia River, once a polluted, neglected river in Washington and Maryland, might soon be swimmable.

A campaign sign for a city council candidate is pictured on display in front of a mural of Martin Luther King Jr. and Nannie ...

Sitting in a meeting room at Martha’s Table in Anacostia yesterday, interim US attorney Ed Martin seemed like quite an outsider. The Trump appointee, a former Stop the Steal activist from Missouri, ...

Explore the challenges faced by comedians in Wards 7 and 8 of Washington, D.C., due to limited comedy venues and lack of infrastructure development.

The sleek storefront, huge picture windows and iconic sign hanging above Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, SE promise to usher in major change to downtown Anacostia.

The new exhibition “To Live and Breathe: Women and Environmental Justice in Washington, D.C.” at the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum celebrates ordinary women making extraordinary ...

The Anacostia River Splash event will be postponed due to sewer overflows caused by a storm on Thursday, said the Department of Energy & Environment. “Recently, we have had several intense short ...

Credit: Crocheted Protest Sign Displayed at Lafayette Square, Washington, DC, London Kaye, 2020. Fiber and synthetic fiber. Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution. What does utopia look ...