With the National Guard still patrolling throughout the District, local leadership and D.C. pride shone bright this weekend, as hundreds of thousands of people flooded Northeast to celebrate community and resilience at H Street Festival on Saturday.

Featuring a block expansion, new businesses, and 20 years seniority, Saturday’s celebration highlighted the breadth of the Northeast corridor to the tune of about 250 vendors and an estimated 160,000 attendees, all basking in the District as a cultural hub for creativity and economic development.

“H Street Fest is what D.C. is all about: highlighting our quarter, marking our quarter, and strengthening it economically,” Anwar Saleem, executive director of H Street Main Street, told The Informer. “People have a tendency of looking at the negati

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