North Michigan Park News

Eleven years ago, Charles Booker was fatally shot on a Northeast Washington street.

While out on my usual weekend forays I came across one of the newest mayoral candidate Muriel Bowser, who struck me as a remnant of ex-mayor Sharon Pratt-Dixon who ran DC in January 1991 - 1995 and to date was the only woman that has been a mayor in Washington DC.

Will "This Girl is on Fire," be the rallying cry for African American women candidates in the upcoming campaign season? It's already been adopted by one Democratic candidate, D.C. Ward 4 Councilmember Muriel Bowser, who wants to broaden the thin ranks of female African American mayors in the country.

Standing in front of the modest North Michigan Park brick duplex where she grew up, D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser energetically announced on Saturday morning that she was jumping into the 2014 mayoral race .

D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser launched a mayoral bid Saturday, kicking off a year-long Democratic primary campaign that is likely to center on the pace of progress in city government, the ethics of elected officials and the direction of the city's remarkable growth.