Anacostia

A D.C. mother and her six young children lost everything in an apartment fire in Anacostia on New Year’s Day.   Despite the fire, Gabby Crumpton and her six kids are doing their best to brighten their days. “No one’s gonna do it how I’m gonna do it, so I gotta constantly tell myself, ‘You’re gonna be OK,’” Crumpton...

A D.C. mother and her six young children lost everything in an apartment fire in Anacostia on New Year’s Day. News4’s Aimee Cho reports the community is rallying to help.

Tuesday is the first day of Kwanzaa, and institutions around D.C. are celebrating. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

Mayor Muriel Bowser proclaimed Wednesday “Spike Lee Day” at the groundbreaking for a go-go museum in Anacostia, honoring the filmmaker for the D.C. genre he took outside the region. News4’s Shawn Yancy reports.

The Go-Go Museum is slated to open in spring 2024. Until then, a mobile museum will teach go-go history across the District.

A mobile museum and a forthcoming physical museum will preserve the history and culture of D.C.’s official music. Community Reporter Molette Green spoke to the museum’s co-founder.

D.C. nonprofit Run Hope Work hosted the 5K to support its mission of helping at-risk youth. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

The family of a special police officer shot to death during a training session plans to file a civil lawsuit. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

Maurica Manyan was shot and killed after a training exercise at Anacostia Neighborhood Library in August 2022.

Surveillance video of the special police officer who was shot and killed during a training exercise at the Anacostia Library has been released by the victim’s family attorney.

A weekend of deadly violence in the District led to desperate calls from neighbors and public officials for something to be done, including possibly calling on the D.C. National Guard.

A weekend of deadly violence in the District led to desperate calls from neighbors and public officials for something to be done, including possibly calling on the D.C. National Guard. Investigative Reporter Ted Oberg was in the community as Council member Trayon White made a plea for help.

The spike in deadly gun violence in the District is taking a toll on several communities in the city. News4’s Derrick Ward reports on the calls from police and residents to stop the bloodshed.

At least five people were shot, three fatally, on Good Hope Road SE in Anacostia Saturday evening. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

Through poetry and passionate pleas, D.C. community members came together, calling on local leaders and each other to lend a hand to folks on the frontlines. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

A retired D.C. police officer pled guilty Friday in the fatal shooting of a special police officer at the Anacostia Library.

A retired D.C. police officer pled guilty Friday in the fatal shooting of a special police officer at the Anacostia Library in August 2022.

A grand jury upgraded charges against a retired D.C. police officer to second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a special police officer at a training session inside a public library in the Anacostia neighborhood in August. 

Nestled behind a beautiful Victorian at the foot of the Frederick Douglass House in D.C.’s historic Anacostia neighborhood is a property unlike any other on the East Coast: a home made almost entirely of bamboo.