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Category: Black History

Demonstrators hold a casket symbolic of all the lives lost in their community due to environmental racism. The rally started at Freedom Plaza and headed to the White House part of the People vs. Fossil Fuels Campaign on Oct. 25, demanding a cessation of fossil fuel projects. (Marckell Williams/The Washington Informer)
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Celebrating Black History Month: Key Moments in the Environmental Justice Movement

by Kayla BenjaminFebruary 22, 2023August 16, 2023
D.C. Council member Anita Bonds (right), shown here with Lisa Fager, executive director of the Black Georgetown Foundation, introduced a D.C. Council resolution honoring Mount Zion-Female Union Band Society Cemetery in early February. (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)
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D.C. Council Recognizes Black History Site in Georgetown

by Sam P.K. CollinsFebruary 20, 2023February 20, 2023
judges desk with gavel and scales
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Push Made for Posthumous Admission to Maryland Bar for Black Man

by James Wright Jr.February 20, 2023February 20, 2023
Cecilia Marshall (second from left), Justice Thurgood Marshall (right) and their two sons (Thurgood Marshall Center for Service and Heritage)
Posted inBlack History, Education

U.Md. to Name New School Building After Thurgood Marshall

by James Wright Jr.February 20, 2023February 20, 2023
Romeo Spaulding, who was the president of the Professional Fire Fighters and advocated for Black firefighters across the country, sits with Rayfield Alfred, the first president of the International Association of Black Professional Firefighters. (Courtesy of Romeo Spaulding)
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D.C.’s Progressive Firefighters Association: The Fight for Fairness Continues

by James Wright Jr.February 15, 2023February 15, 2023
cheerful ethnic couple reading book together while resting on sofa at home
Posted inBlack History, Op-Ed, Opinion

Black Literacy is Black Resistance

by Micha GreenFebruary 15, 2023February 15, 2023
Austin R. Cooper Jr. is a graduate of St. Augustine's, an HBCU in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Courtesy photo)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, Education

HBCU Pride: Historically Black Colleges and Universities Remain Important Today

by Austin R. Cooper Jr.February 15, 2023February 16, 2023
**FILE** Marcia Fudge (Freddie Allen/NNPA)
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HUD’s Six Black Secretaries

by Austin R. Cooper Jr.February 15, 2023February 15, 2023
Booker T. Washington
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Black Students Have Paid for College…One Way or Another

by James Wright Jr.February 15, 2023February 15, 2023
**FILE** Pauli Murray (Carolina Digital Library and Archives via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inBlack History

Howard U. Alum Pauli Murray Among Women to Appear on U.S. Quarter

by James Wright Jr.February 13, 2023February 13, 2023

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