April 22, 2021
Support for D.C. statehood is higher than ever, but a House-approved statehood bill s future in the Senate is unclear.
The fight for D.C. statehood has been going on for decades, but in 2021 the movement has reached a critical point.
Democrats control the House, Senate and White House, which has certainly happened before. But within the Democratic caucus on Capitol Hill, support for D.C. statehood is bigger than ever. The final holdout among the regional lawmakers: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. Even if you look at Steny Hoyer, you know, who s longtime progressive leader in the House, he and I, I think, were the last two in the regional delegation to come in favor of D.C. statehood. And I think we realize it comes down to basic fairness, said Democratic Sen. Mark Warner.
Inside The Push To Make Washington, D C The 51st State
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This 2018 BLM rally calls back to the long history of the Black Power Movement in DC Image by Lorie Shaull licensed under Creative Commons.
“Washington represents the clearest contradictions of black and white in America,” Stokely Carmichael said in 1968. That quote is displayed front and center on historian George Derek Musgrove’s sweeping interactive web page, which details the history of the Black Power movement in DC.
Musgrove, a co-author of
, and a history professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, argues that the Black Power movement wasn’t just a force in DC politics. It was
the force for four decades. From the Civil Rights movement to DC’s first years of Home Rule to the resurgence of activism in the 1980s and 1990s, these activists were instrumental in shaping the District as we know it today.