Friends of Omar Sykes and members of the Howard community are invited to attend the service at the Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel at 6 p.m. tonight.

DCPS is expecting so many people to attend the public memorial service for slain Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson principal Brian Betts that they’ve moved the event to the Music Center at Strathmore. The public is invited to attend the event, set for Saturday, May 1 from 10-11:30 a.m. Current and former students, parents, colleagues, family and friends are especially encouraged to participate. The Music Center at Strathmore is located at 5301 Tuckerman Lane in…

Via the Post’s Hamil Harris, funeral services for civil rights icon Dorothy Height will take place 10 a.m. Thursday at Washington National Cathedral. There are also a number of other memorials and celebrations of Height’s life planned throughout next week. On Tuesday, a public viewing will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. at the council’s Dorothy I. Height headquarters building at 633 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. At 2 p.m. Wednesday at Howard University, the Delta…

Image courtesy DCPS DCPS has organized a public memorial service for those in the community wishing to honor the memory of Brian Betts, the slain principal of Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson. The memorial will take place on Saturday, May 1 at 11 a.m. in the Cardozo Senior High School auditorium (1200 Clifton Street NW). Separate memorials and tributes for the Shaw school community are planned for this month. On April 22, DCPS will…

The District Department of Transportation issued a traffic alert for the Haiti memorial mass scheduled for 1:30 p.m. today at Sacred Heart Church, located at 16th Street and Park Road in NW. DDOT predicts large crowds and traffic on 16th Street between Irving and Newton Streets and on Park Road between 14th and 17th Streets. There is a small irony in a Haiti memorial service prompting severe traffic, since traffic has been such a severe…

Ben Ali The Ali family is holding a memorial service today for Ben’s Chili Bowl co-founder Ben Ali, who died last week at 82. The memorial service actually began a short while ago, at noon, at the Lincoln Theater on U Street. While the service is open to the public, the short notice implies mostly family, friends and colleagues are in attendance today. In a message on the Ben’s web site, the family asks…