Josue Martinez, who owns Corinto Gallery, has received more than 25 orders in the hours since her appearance.

“We are home to our most powerful institutions, yet we have been denied our power as American citizens.”

Marion Barry has attended nearly every Democratic National Convention since 1960. In 1988, he addressed delegates as a member of the convention’s rules committee. Here’s what he said.

Union workers. Teachers. Veterans. Arab-Americans. Sluts. All of these groups have joined forced to make sure that President Obama is elected to a second term. Wait, sluts?

After the Democratic National Convention was moved inside for its final night, more than 55,000 people who thought they were attending President Obama’s acceptance speech were shut out, including many who had plans to travel from the D.C. area.

During yesterday’s roll call of the state delegations to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, Mayor Vince Gray pledged the city’s 45 delegates to Presidents Obama while making a plea for D.C. voting rights and statehood.

Bill Butcher, the owner and brewmaster at Alexandria’s Port City Brewing Company, put D.C.-area beer-making on a national stage last night when he got to address the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.

D.C. might feel more at home with the Democratic Party, but being faithful Democrats has its price: the D.C. delegation to the DNC got some of the worst seats in the house.

Bill Butcher, the owner of Port City Brewing Company, is in Charlotte, N.C. today, where he will address the Democratic National Convention this evening about the Obama administration’s relationship with the small business community.

NBC4’s coverage of the Democratic National Convention was like Freaky Friday on a Tuesday night.