The funding would help chip away at a maintenance backlog of $405 million, and pay for new playgrounds, sports facilities and more.

Catch the D.C. Black Film Festival, listen to R&B at Fort Dupont Park or Blondie at The Anthem, and stroll a car-free Adams Morgan around D.C. this weekend.

First Lady Michelle Obama had been planning on getting out into the Washington community this afternoon and doing some work on a habitat improvement project led by the Anacostia Watershed Society at Fort Dupont Park in Ward 7.