Frederic John recounts an impressive line-up at Glover Park Day 2016.

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Samuel Ali plays the charango, an instrumental typical to his motherland, the Bolivian plateaus, in order to add color to dreary city streets.

The District orchestrated another homeless encampment shut down on Thursday morning, April 14. A handful of men had taken shelter…

Early on the afternoon of Thursday, March 3, “Preacherman” Lance could see trouble coming. The day was brisk, as the…

On a rainy morning a week before Thanksgiving, with a cold front moving in, dozens of homeless people who stayed…

Rain fell lightly on the Georgetown campus during the evening of Monday, November 9. While the rest of the campus…

The District of Columbia prohibits camping and any other form of “temporary abode.” On Friday, November 13 a long-standing camp of homeless men and women learned that this ordinance would soon be enforced. The story continues to develop…

Blocks away from The George Washington University, 18 tents sit nestled in the shadow of the Watergate complex. Despite the…

On Saturdays there is a farmer’s food market at 14th and Colorado Avenue, NW. On a recent Saturday, I visited…

An old French “wives’ tale” describes an expectant woman’s result from gazing upon a rabbit: The child had a hare…

I have seen Dave many times at Miriam’s Kitchen. He told me once that he had an auto repair shop…

Street Sense vendors shared songs and monologues expressing the challenges of trusting others and facing homelessness at a November 13…

September 5, 2013 It’s as if someone turned on the stereo in the middle of an office meeting. The playwriting…

Miriam’s Kitchen got its start in 1983, serving simple breakfasts of eggs, grits, toast and coffee to a handful of…

Miriam’s Kitchen served its first breakfast to the homeless on Oct. 6, 1983. It has been thirty years since that…

At first, coming up the Metro escalator, it’s just distant noise. It’s hard to figure out what I’m hearing. But…

Since the recession hit five years ago, the rise in family homelessness has gotten a lot of attention from city…

The nations capital is a hub of diversity filled with hustle and bustle and all walks of life, but at…

Over the past months, groups around the DC area have worked feverishly to help register homeless and low-income district residents…