- Gallaudet University suspended its oldest fraternity over photos showing members in banned ceremonial robes resembling Ku Klux Klan wear. [Post]
- Mayor Muriel Bowser penned an op-ed linking D.C.’s fight against racial injustice to the need for statehood. [Post]
- D.C.’s police chief said the D.C. Council insulted his department by insinuating they were in need of emergency reform. [FOX 5]
- A black-owned beauty shop in D.C. demanded that Sephora examine its diversity and discriminatory issues. [Washingtonian]
- The 4-year-old D.C. girl who was accidentally shot by another child last month is slowly starting to recover. [Post]
- Two 19 year olds were killed in a shooting in Southeast on Saturday. [NBC Washington]
- Meet Wayne Bennett Pettus, the DDOT technician and aspiring rapper who designed the Black Lives Matter Plaza street sign. [WJLA]
- Take a look at the local Black Lives Matter art compiled by The Omi Collective. [WCP]
- The Library of Congress will release one commissioned music piece a day that’s been inspired by the pandemic. [WTOP]
- An open letter to D.C. football fans. [Informer]
- A D.C United player tested positive for coronavirus. [WTOP]
- A house fire spanning two Northeast homes displaced seven people last night. [WUSA 9]
- ICYMI: People gathered for a protest-turned-party outside of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s D.C. home.
- ICYMI: A new peak in D.C.’s coronavirus cases set back the city’s sustained decline by two days.
- This Day in DCist: Symba, a 35-pound cat, found his forever home.
Colleen Grablick