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TATUM is an East Texas town of about 1,300 people, closer to Shreveport than Dallas. It’s on the north shore of Martin Lake. Across the...

SOME people have become accustomed to vote trading in national and local politics. There is the belief that such transactions lead to...

THE $19.7 billion Fiscal Year 2024 Budget and Financial Plan submitted earlier this year by Mayor Muriel Bowser demonstrates her...

OVER the past several weeks, the political and public policy rhetoric in the District has seemed like a five-alarm fire — the heat and...

WARD 3 State Board of Education member Eric Goulet publicly asked on Twitter whether DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson has become...

LONG before Stokely Carmichael (aka Kwame Ture) shouted the phrase “Black Power” in 1966; before James Brown, sans his famous processed...

AS an organizer who’s spent much of my life fighting for civil rights and access to the ballot box, I reflect on the work and words of...

I am on the telephone listening to my granddaughter discuss the week’s events. Normally she is a confident, self-assured, sassy high...

By Ben Jealous LIKE so many of us right now, I’ve got Georgia on my mind. As I write this, I’ve just gotten back from meeting with Black...

DC voters began receiving their ballots for the November general election this week. The contests for mayor, DC Council chair and council...

“[T]HE highway was lined with yellow wildflowers that danced from their roots every time a car drove by. Smoke seeped up into the sky...

“It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends,” Joan Didion wrote in her 1967 essay, “Goodbye to All That.”...

DC Attorney General Karl Racine may have crossed an ethical line when he endorsed Brian Schwalb as his successor. One of four candidates...

PRESIDENT Joe Biden is about to name the first Black woman ever nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court—in fact, he may have already done so...

THE Republican National Committee (RNC) is officially letting Americans know that it is more committed to former President Donald Trump...

The final installment of an investigative series by The DC Line supported by SpotlightDC: Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism...

Part 4 of an investigative series by The DC Line supported by SpotlightDC: Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism THE child who...

The DC Line conducted a six-month investigation, funded by SpotlightDC: Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism, in pursuit of the...

Funded by SpotlightDC:Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism and The DC Line Outside the three-story, red brick apartment...