Clarence Williams

Washington, D.C., United States

Washington Post Reporter. Past chaser of crime, now chasing stories of life; @medillschool MSJ; Happiest @Merrillcollege adjunct; Christmas music/lights 4life

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When minutes matter: A community finally gets the trauma center it needs

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Jenna Portnoy |Clarence Williams

When minutes matter: A community finally gets the trauma center it needs (washingtonpost.com) When minutes matter: A community finally gets the trauma center it needs By Jenna Portnoy; Clarence Williams 2025041210000000 Beverly F. Smith was braiding her daughter's hair years ago when her partner punched her in the jaw, breaking it in three places. He called 911, took her children and left her bleeding and alone.
Prince George’s police officer charged with DWI in patrol car

Mar 22, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Clarence Williams

A Prince George’s County police officer was charged with driving his marked cruiser while impaired early Saturday in Laurel, county police officials said. Officer Simeon Daramola was off-duty but driving the patrol car on Fourth Street, where Laurel police located him about 2:15 a.m., according to a statement by county police. Daramola, a patrol officer who joined the agency in 2023, was “issued DWI-related citations,” the statement said.
A wellness plan on Anacostia shores: D.C. approves Therme spa at Poplar Point

Mar 21, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Clarence Williams

Amid a flurry of pitches to generate small business and city development Thursday afternoon, a promotional video unveiled grand visions of upscale relaxation and waterpark fun on the shores of the Anacostia River. Kids sped through a rainbow of colorful waterslides. Millennials sipped cocktails at swim-up bars. Sun-tanned bodies steamed inside saunas.
D.C. children bring history to life with Blacks in Wax

Mar 17, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Clarence Williams

Minutes before the living museum opened in the lobby of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, costume designer Janice Rankins made a final round of checks on exhibitors. Rankins swept past D.C. youth actors playing the roles of entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker, singer Chaka Khan and a trio of Black Panther legends.
D.C. is seeing fewer HIV cases. But that means it could get less money going forward.

Feb 19, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Jenna Portnoy |Clarence Williams

Derrick “Strawberry” Cox mingled to warm up the happy hour crowd, as a DJ pumped beats across the Hamilton Hotel’s ballroom. An open bar, crudité and gourmet popcorn stations created familiar environs for Cox, a professional host, emcee, model, dancer and planner of events across “the DM-northern V,” particularly if involves Black or LGBTQ crowds.
One week after DCA collision, a focus on supporting victims’ families

Feb 5, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Clarence Williams |Teo Armus

Figure skating champions and legends will glide across Capital One Arena ice next month as headliners of an exhibition to raise funds to support families of the victims in a midair collision near Reagan National Airport that killed 67, officials announced Wednesday.
Sculpture made of handguns is dedicated as it returns to D.C.

Feb 4, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Clarence Williams

At one time, District officials and residents feared this multitude of guns helped fuel the city’s descent into the deadly madness of the 1990s. So much so that they were bought to keep them off the streets, 3,000 guns in all: revolvers and semiautomatics; .38 specials and 9mms. Since then, their chambers have remained empty, their triggers immobile for all time, forged into one as a massive monument to peace.
Appeals court reinstates civil suit over fire department beard policy

Jan 29, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Clarence Williams

A group of District firefighters won an appeal this week that revives their civil lawsuit seeking damages against the D.C. Fire and EMS Department for incorrectly enforcing a policy banning beards. The D.C. Court of Appeals overturned a lower-court ruling Tuesday and remanded the case to the lower court for a new hearing.
D.C. announces its plans to celebrate nation’s 250th birthday next year

Jan 28, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Clarence Williams

As the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding looms next year, officials at the National Archives, the Smithsonian Institution and the D.C. tourism industry outlined plans Tuesday to celebrate the semiquincentennial. “Only in D.C. can you see the actual Declaration of Independence, and we will have by far the best celebration of the 250th in America,” said Elliott L. Ferguson II, president and chief executive of Destination DC.
D.C. bill would restrict students’ cellphone use in schools

Jan 28, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Lauren Lumpkin |Clarence Williams

Public schools in the District would ban cellphone use during the school day under a bill announced Monday, joining similar pushes at other school districts in the D.C. area and beyond. Council member Brooke Pinto (D-Ward 2), who introduced the proposal, said banning cellphones could lead to better academic outcomes for kids. A little more than a third of the city’s schoolchildren can read at grade level, and less than a quarter are proficient in math, data show.