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A 6-year-old’s death leaves a neighborhood grieving but not surprised Courtland Milloy The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X spent the best years of their young lives offering solutions to the most vexing problems of racism, poverty and violence in the United States. For both men, the well-being of Black people mattered more than their own lives. In the District, one of the ways they are remembered for their commitment is by having streets named for them. But too often, those streets have failed to honor the civil rights icons. Instead, they have been a backdrop...

Hospitals will come up with their own timelines for a change that has sparked lawsuits elsewhere in the country.

The lack of confidence for in-person schooling is a huge hurdle to overcome.

Montgomery County takes steps to excuse absences for mental health difficulties.

As vaccination rates increase, cases and other metrics keep dropping in D.C. area Lola Fadulu © Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post The Go Go Band Backyard Band performed at a vaccination event in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. Coronavirus vaccination rates in the D.C. area are rising, and covid-19 metrics continue to fall: Case counts, hospitalizations and deaths are now a small fraction of what they were during the height of the pandemic this winter. But the threat of infection still looms among the unvaccinated, and public officials and health experts warn that the risk i...