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**FILE** The Rev. Bill Lee, the Rev. Tony Lee, pastor of Community of Hope AME Church, and Melanie Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, take part in an event to increase voting in the Black community in May. Pastor Lee and Cambell both emphasize he importance of commemorating Juneteenth’s history and using the day to continue fighting for justice. (Cleveland Nelson/The Washington Informer)
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**FILE** From left: Hughes Van Ellis, a since-deceased survivor of the Tulsa race massacre, Ike Howard and Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre and author of "Don't Let Them Bury My Story,” pose at the 2023 Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference. Van Ellis was Fletcher’s brother and Howard is her grandson. (WI photo)
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**FILE** James Lawson (ufcw770, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons)
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The Rev. James Lawson Jr., Original Freedom Rider and Apostle of Nonviolence, Dies at 95

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Memorial Services Set for Wilmington Ten Member Willie Earl Vereen

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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and President of the Daisy Bates Foundation Charles King and other leaders clap as the Daisy Bates statue is unveiled in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall on May 8. (Shedrick Pelt @sdotpdotmedia/The Washington Informer)
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Arkansas Civil Rights Icon Daisy Bates Commemorated with Capitol Statue

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D.C. Public Library to Digitize Papers of Civil Rights Activist Julius Hobson

by James Wright Jr.May 5, 2024May 6, 2024
Members of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Southwest D.C. commemorate the 77 enslaved people who attempted to escape to freedom from the 7th Street SW Wharf on April 15, 1948, 14 years before the D.C. Emancipation Act was signed. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)
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Southwest Church Recognizes Historic Potomac River Slave Escape 14 Years Before D.C. Emancipation

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Dorie Ladner (Courtesy of Thirteen.org)
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Remembering Dorie Ladner as a ‘Warrior’ of the Civil Rights Movement

by Hamil R. HarrisApril 17, 2024April 17, 2024
**FILE** D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (Abdullah Konte/The Washington Informer)
Posted inBlack History

Norton Floats Bill to Posthumously Award Congressional Gold Medal to Black Navy Officers

by James Wright Jr.April 17, 2024April 18, 2024
Ramona Edelin
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Ramona Edelin, Activist and Education Advocate, Dies at 78

by Stacy M. BrownMarch 27, 2024March 27, 2024

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