A crowd of young people gathered on Halloween night in Washington’s Navy Yard neighborhood was run out of a park area by police and National Guard members. Authorities said some in the crowd were engaged in disorderly conduct. The Metropolitan Police Department says young people converged on the park Friday night. As night wore on, police said some people took part in fights, disrupted the flow of traffic and ignored instructions to remain on sidewalks. A video posted on X captured the chao...| NBC4 Washington
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the return of a city-wide juvenile curfew and juvenile curfew zones in the District starting Saturday night. It also includes the juvenile curfew and juvenile curfew zone that will go on until Wednesday, and the Bowser administration says this is just one tool in the tool box. This comes after the latest instance in what…| NBC4 Washington
The Department of Education launched civil rights investigations into 45 universities, including three D.C.-area schools, on Friday over allegations that those schools had violated Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. According to a press release from the department, the alleged violations happened because the universities worked with “The PhD Project,” a relatively small organization aimed at helping underrepresented…| NBC4 Washington
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today that it has launched an investigation into George Mason University to determine whether the University has denied equal treatment of individuals based on race or national origin, in violation of Title VI.| www.justice.gov
The U.S. Department of Justice is launching a civil rights investigation into George Mason University over its hiring practices. The DOJ investigation is in addition to one from the Department of Education, and is part of a Trump administration pattern of using civil rights laws to accuse schools of discrimination for DEI practices.| NBC4 Washington
The Trump administration on Thursday opened a civil rights investigation into the hiring practices at George Mason University, expanding a national campaign against diversity policies to Virginia’s largest public university. The Education Department said it is responding to a complaint from multiple professors at George Mason who accuse the university of favoring those from underrepresented groups. The complaint takes aim at the university’s president, Gregory Washington, saying he issued...| NBC4 Washington
