African Diaspora International Film Festival Showcases Human Experience of People of Color Globally
• August 7, 2025

By Caroline Moore This past weekend, the Africa World Now Project and the GWU Africana Studies Program hosted the African Diaspora International Film Festival DC right on George Washington University’s […]

Hats off to the Grads: 2025 Commencement Speakers
• May 12, 2025

We’re tipping our graduation caps to the class of 2025! Here are the highlights from commencements from local universities, with Georgetown and George Washington University’s taking place this weekend. Georgetown […]

Classical Echoes in Oak Hill Cemetery
• January 23, 2025

Sponsored Content Since its founding in 1849, Oak Hill has been the final resting place of the well-known and the well-heeled. This Georgetown cemetery was established on land contributed by […]

DSLBD’s ReFashion Launches at GWU’s Textile Museum
• August 26, 2024

The D.C. Department of Small and Local Business Development (DSLBD) celebrated the launch of the ReFashion Initiative at the George Washington University Textile Museum. DSLBD Director Rosemary Suggs-Evans said she […]

Congratulations, Graduates! Guide to 2024 Local Commencements
• May 16, 2024

We’re tipping our graduation caps to the class of 2024! Here are the highlights from commencements from local universities, with Georgetown and George Washington University’s taking place this weekend. Georgetown […]

Congratulations, Graduates! Guide to Local Commencements
• May 18, 2023

We’re tipping our graduation caps to the class of 2023! Here are the highlights from commencements from local universities, with Georgetown and George Washington University’s taking place this weekend.  Georgetown […]

Cultural Power Breakfast: GWU’s Corcoran: ‘A Very Different School’ 
• March 27, 2023

Of the storied institution that was the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art and Design, Dr. Lauren Onkey, director since 2021 of George Washington University’s Corcoran School of […]

Dumbarton Oaks, According to Dr. Batsaki  
• November 21, 2022

“What is this place?” pondered Dr. Yota Batsaki when she first encountered Dumbarton Oaks, the Harvard University-owned research institute, museum and garden on 32nd Street in Georgetown. Did anything tie […]

Downtowner News Briefs, Jan. 31
• January 31, 2022

Offensive Graffiti at Union Station  A 34-year-old man was arrested in late January for defacing private and public property at Union Station and three other buildings in the city. The […]

Profs & Pints: Tales from Netherworlds
• October 16, 2021

Profs and Pints presents: “Tales from Netherworlds,” an evening with Baba Yaga and other dark denizens of the imagination, with folklorist Philippa Rappoport of George Washington University. [Under current District […]