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• Colbert I. King -- Sleeping Rough in a D.C. Juvenile Center

  Dogs in animal shelters have it better. At least they sleep alone at night. Read More... Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 7:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King Archive | (Comments Off) Filed under: Washington, DC, Tommy Wells, D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, --, Juvenile, Council of the District of Columbia, D.C., Oak Hill Youth Center, A, Charles Allen, In, King, Northeast (Washington, DC), Colbert, I., Alan Pemberton, Grace Lopes, Sleeping, Center, Youth Services Center, Rough

• A Few Obama Thank-Yous

  In his Tuesday night acceptance speech, President-elect Barack Obama appropriately offered "thank-yous" to his family, campaign aides and voters who supported the Democratic ticket. Read More... Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 7:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King Archive | (Comments Off) Filed under: A, The White House, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain, U.S. Republican Party, U.S. Congressional Black Caucus, CBS Corporation, Illinois, Philadelphia, Obama, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Wall Street, Sarah Palin, Jeremiah Alvesta Wright, Few, Katie Couric, U.S. Census Bureau, National Party of South Africa, Commission on Presidential Debates, Tim Kaine, F.W. de Klerk, Thank-Yous, U.S. Secret Service

• A High-Stakes Election for Mid-Term Fenty

  Tuesday's local election results will have a heavy bearing on the political future of an elected official whose name is not on the ballot. Read More... Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 8:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King Archive | (Comments Off) Filed under: Washington, DC, Tommy Wells, Council of the District of Columbia, Vincent Schiraldi, Adrian Fenty, A, Phil Mendelson, Carol Schwartz, Vincent Gray, for, Marion Barry, Michelle Rhee, Fenty, Patrick Mara, Yvette Alexander, Department of Youth, Harry Thomas Jr., Dee Hunter, Michael Brown, Mid-Term, D.C. Statehood Green Party, Kwame Brown, Northeast (Washington, DC), David Schwartzman, High-Stakes, Linda Cropp, John Wilson, Mark Long, Barry Five, Election

• A Rage No One Should Be Stoking

  "Kill him": the battle cry of a lynch mob and words yelled out by a man at a Sarah Palin rally in Clearwater, Fla., this month, according to my Post colleague Dana Milbank. Read More... Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 8:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King Archive | (Comments Off) Filed under: A, United States, The White House, No, One, Barack Obama, John McCain, Louisiana, Georgia, Ohio, Africa, Vietnam, Be, Sarah Palin, Dana Milbank, D.C. Department of Youth and Rehabilitation Services, Middle East, Oak Hill, Weather Underground Organization, Monroe, Al Jazeera Satellite Channel, Florida, Rage, John Lewis, Should, William Ayers, Clearwater, Stoking, Casey Kauffman

• Candor Takes a Beating at Oak Hill

  The D.C. Council held hearings this week on youths who are released from the Oak Hill detention facility before they are ready to rejoin the community -- an issue I have addressed in several columns. Read More... Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 8:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King Archive | (Comments Off) Filed under: Washington, DC, at, Council of the District of Columbia, Vincent Schiraldi, Adrian Fenty, David Muhammad, A, DYRS, Oak, Kelvin Powell, Candor, Takes, Hill, Leroy Duncan, Beating

• The Lapses Behind a Killer's Rampage

  A sentence of four consecutive life terms in prison ensures that Anthony Kelly will die in jail. He deserves nothing less. Read More... Posted Friday, September 12, 2008 8:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King (washingtonpost.com) | (Comments Off) Filed under: Washington, DC, A, United States, the, Southeast (Washington, DC), Capitol Hill, Behind, Maryland, Seattle, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, Anthony Kelly, Erika Smith, Durke G. Thompson, Killer's, Lapses, Rampage, Greg Russell, Montgomery County (Maryland), United States Parole Commission, Silver Spring, U.S. Department of Justice

• A Suicidal Choice for Clinton Supporters

  I get the part about feeling disappointed and bitter. I can even understand their impulse to sit this one out. After all, this was supposed to be Hillary Clinton's time. Read More... Posted Friday, August 29, 2008 8:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King (washingtonpost.com) | (Comments Off) Filed under: A, for, Clinton, Choice, Supporters, Suicidal

• More Deaths -- and a Promised Review in D.C.

  From the Aug. 15 Post: "Police yesterday captured a District man who escaped from Cheltenham Youth Center in Prince George's County on Sunday along with two other detainees. Maryland state troopers and D.C. police said they arrested 18-year-old Demarco Read More... Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 8:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King (washingtonpost.com) | (Comments Off) Filed under: Washington, DC, Tommy Wells, D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, --, Council of the District of Columbia, Vincent Schiraldi, D.C., Adrian Fenty, Prince George's County, A, Oxon Hill, In, Peter Nickles, and, More, Baltimore-Washington International Airport, Review, Maryland, Gerald Long, Demarco E. Smith, Promised, Cheltenham Youth Center, Deaths

• Memo From a Poison Penn

  Say you find yourself seated on the train behind two white supremacists who are beside themselves over the possibility that Barack Obama could become America's first black president. Read More... Posted Friday, August 15, 2008 8:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King (washingtonpost.com) | (Comments Off) Filed under: Washington, DC, A, United States, The White House, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Illinois, From, Hawaii, Poison, Memo, Columbia (Maryland), Mark Penn, Penn, Burson-Marsteller Ltd.

• A Youth Agency That Needs to Open Up

  Phyllis Woods, crying softly, was being comforted by two co-workers as I left the building where she works on Trenton Place SE. Read More... Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 8:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King (washingtonpost.com) | (Comments Off) Filed under: A, That, Youth, Agency, to, Up, Needs, Open

• A Tragedy That Is Ours to Stop

  "It starts with teaching our daughters to never allow images on television to tell them what they are worth, and teaching our sons to treat women with respect, and to realize that responsibility does not end at conception, that what makes them men is Read More... Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 8:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King (washingtonpost.com) | (Comments Off) Filed under: Washington, DC, Council of the District of Columbia, Is, A, That, Jim Graham, to, Barack Obama, NAACP, Tragedy, Stop, Cincinnati, Brenda Rhodes Miller, Citywide Coordinating Council on Youth Violence Prevention, Ours

• A Heretic's Advice To Obama

  Today, I shall commit an act of heresy so offensive to cherished Washington beliefs that revocation of my citizenship in the nation's capital is quite likely to follow. Read More... Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 8:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King (washingtonpost.com) | (Comments Off) Filed under: Washington, DC, A, to, Bill Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, Newsweek Inc., Barack Obama, U.S. Republican Party, Obama, Richard Nixon, Capitol Hill, Evan Thomas, Advice, Heretic's, Post Co., George W. Bush

• A Week of Wonders

  This is the kind of week that might blow Alexander Crummell's mind. Read More... Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 8:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King (washingtonpost.com) | (Comments Off) Filed under: Washington, DC, Adrian Fenty, A, United States, Carol Schwartz, Vincent Gray, Northwest (Washington, DC), New York, Howard University, Week, Alexander Crummell, Vincent Reed, London, Noyes Academy, Queen's College, Liberia, Blow Pierce, New Hampshire, West Africa, Benjamin Banneker Academic High School, Wonders, American Negro Academy, Friendship Public Charter School, of, United Kingdom, General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, Delaware, The Washington Post Company, Blow Pierce Junior Academy, Collegiate Academy

• A Building That Speaks to Us

  In his recently released book, "Becton: Autobiography of a Soldier and Public Servant," retired Army Lt. Gen. Julius W. Becton Jr. delves into his tumultuous tenure as chief executive of D.C. public schools in the late 1990s. Chapter 19, "My Toughest Read More... Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 8:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King (washingtonpost.com) | (Comments Off) Filed under: Washington, DC, Council of the District of Columbia, Adrian Fenty, Francis Junior High School, A, That, to, National Mall, Michelle Rhee, West End, Sean Madigan, Neil O. Albert, Susan Trinter, Stevens Elementary School, Muriel Bowser, Building, Us, Speaks, Julius W. Becton Jr.

• A Battlefield Called Wilson High

  "Security at Wilson High to Be Tightened" announced a headline in The Post's March 21 Metro section. More stringent measures were being put in place after 13 students were arrested because of two fights that week, the story said. Read More... Posted Friday, March 28, 2008 5:00 PM from washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King (washingtonpost.com) | (Comments Off) Filed under: Washington, DC, D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, Council of the District of Columbia, Adrian Fenty, Dunbar High School, A, Vincent Gray, Mary M. Cheh, Called, Howard University, Mai Abdul Rahman, Wilson, Wilson Tigers, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, Tonya Kinlow, High, Victor Reinoso, Michelle Rhee, Woodrow Wilson High School, Battlefield, Maryland-Eastern Shore Hawks