Latest from Hamil R. Harris
‘Everybody wanted to be there.’ Remembering the Million Man March at 25.
Thousands of Black men gathered on the Mall in Washington for a day of celebration and promise.
  • Oct 15, 2020
Michael John Summers, a real estate appraiser with a flair for photography, dies of complications of covid-19
Summers, 65, lived in Suitland, Md.
  • Oct 2, 2020
Ricardo Leon, who learned his trade as a boy in Guatemala, started his own home improvement business in the United States
Leon, 61, of Silver Spring, died of covid-19 in May.
  • Jul 29, 2020
Van Martel Brathwaite, who served in the D.C. government for decades, always put his daughter first
Brathwaite worked as an assistant general counsel for the District’s Department of Health.
  • Jul 2, 2020
D.C.-area mother and daughter die of covid-19 just days apart
Annie Mae Fuller was known for her sweet potato pies. Connie D. Madden worked as a teacher’s aide.
  • May 27, 2020
U.S. political climate results from ‘theological malpractice,’ D.C. pastor says
‘This will be only be solved when America and her churches are willing to confess to their ultimate loyalty to whiteness and to empire.’
  • Aug 25, 2017
A chat with the new pastor of a historic D.C. Baptist church
The Nineteenth Street Baptist Church has named the Rev. Darryl Roberts as its new pastor.
  • Apr 21, 2017
A Q&A with the D.C. pastor who is in charge of the Democratic convention
After midnight, Daughtry walked to each important spot in the convention center to pray over what would happen there.
  • Jul 26, 2016
Four ways schools failed in the case of Maurice Bellamy, a 17-year-old charged with two killings
They didn't give him the special ed services he needed or report him when he was truant.
  • Apr 30, 2016
Gospel artist’s guilty plea on charge of assaulting his wife highlights a hidden problem
Grammy-nominated gospel singer James Fortune pleaded guilty Tuesday to assaulting his wife.
  • Mar 10, 2016
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