Inequality in America

Tens of thousands of people are expected in D.C. Saturday for a variety of rallies and protests focusing on statehood for the District, voting rights and other social justice issues.

In D.C., people rallied for that change in Lafayette Square and Black Lives Matter Plaza. They used the fence that the Trump administration put up as a message billboard.

A celebration of Al Brooks’ life will be held Saturday at 3 p.m. at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Woodbridge.

A D.C. art gallery is on a mission to get people to buy Black art.

An audit of the Montgomery County Police Department calls for increased training and changes to several department policies.

The George Washington University will change the name of its student center from Cloyd Heck Marvin Center to University Student Center, the university announced. The Board of Trustees of GW voted on the name change based on suggestions from a special committee conformed of students, faculty, staff and alumni, according to a press release. The commi...

The group Black Voters Matter and more than 50 other organizations from across the United States held a demonstration on the National Mall on Saturday billed as the first national rally in support of D.C. statehood.  D.C. was the last stop on the Freedom Ride for Voting Rights, a nine-city, eight-day tour by Black Voters Matter.  The grou...

Friday’s Juneteenth Freedom Reception was supposed to be a push for change, but instead, it turned into a celebration. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports from a joyful gathering at the MLK Memorial on what organizers call a first step.

Aimee Cho found out how to mark the new federal holiday and learn something all at the same time.

Montgomery County is reaching out to people who’ve been targeted for verbal or physical abuse because of their race, ethnicity, religion or other reasons and who may be reluctant to report it to authorities.

As the holiday marking the emancipation of enslaved people in the U.S. becomes a national holiday, News4’s “Inequality in America” special will examine the significance of Juneteenth.

Sixty-one years ago this month, several Howard University students and allies walked into the People’s Drug Store on Lee Highway in Arlington. For the next two weeks, they participated in sit-ins to protest white-only lunch counters across the county.  Now a special exhibit and letter-pressed cards mark the moment in Arlington’s ci...