Nine months later, fencing comes down around the church where Trump stood with a Bible
Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post
March 1, 2021
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A worker on Monday straps fencing that surrounded St. John s Church in Washington.Washington Post photo by Matt McClain.
WASHINGTON - H Street downtown was nearly deserted and few people noticed Monday morning when workers at St. John s Church took down dozens of sections of black steel mesh fencing, a barrier that had gone up during the tumultuous summer of 2020 when the church wound up at the center of national debates about race, religion and security.
Across a small park from the White House, St. John s had been known for decades as the president s church for its elite congregation, but in June made news worldwide. As protests against police brutality and racism boiled across the country, someone threw a flammable substance through a basement window at the church, igniting a small fire. Then, after federal law e
Uncomfortable truth : The new push for a slavery reparations commission in Congress
DeNeen L. Brown, The Washington Post
Feb. 10, 2021
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Weeks after Democrats took control of Congress and the White House, a Black lawmaker is making a renewed push for a national commission to examine the impact of slavery and reparations for descendants of millions of enslaved Africans.
Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee, D-Texas, announced the reintroduction of H.R. 40 to create the reparations commission last month, and next week the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is set to hear testimony on the bill.
H.R. 40 has a long history in the House, championed for decades by the late Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., and now by Lee.
Fight over release of details in expert report alleging police misconduct, racism continues in Maryland
Katie Mettler, The Washington Post
Jan. 30, 2021
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Prosecutors and public defenders in Prince George s County, Md., have been fighting for names of officers and content in a report detailing alleged discrimination within the police department.Washington Post photo by Matt McClain.
Attorneys in Prince George s County, Md., continue to spar over whether an expert report outlining alleged officer misconduct and systemic racial discrimination within the police department should be released to the public without redactions.
The report, which has been partially under seal since it was first filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland last summer, is part of an ongoing discrimination lawsuit filed against the department more than two years ago by a group of Black and Hispanic police officers. It was written by a former Los Angeles deputy sheriff who was hired by the
A herculean effort : How the National Guard fed and housed soldiers who came to D.C.
Richard Leiby, The Washington Post
Jan. 29, 2021
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Members of the National Guard outside the U.S. Capitol at sunrise on Jan. 19, 2021.Washington Post photo by Matt McClain.
As part of a horde of journalists who swarmed Kuwait in early 2003, I knew it was inevitable: The United States was going to war with Iraq. But until it happened, we were impatient for stories, and the military tried to sell us one: Pay attention to the logistics. I went to a desert staging ground to hear a brigadier general talk about unsexy stuff - how to move an army, the basics of feeding, billeting, equipping, transporting.
Would you live here? These U.S. cities have particularly wild, extreme weather
Matthew Cappucci, The Washington Post
Jan. 8, 2021
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A pedestrian walks along Holly Street in the Five Points area in Nashville last year days after tornados hit the area.Washington Post photo by Matt McClain.
The United States is home to some of the wildest weather in the world. Extreme blizzards, destructive tornadoes, mammoth hurricanes and brutal floods are commonplace year after year - sometimes in the same place.
The direct access to both frigid air from the Arctic and tropical air from the Gulf of Mexico frequently places the U.S. in a fierce battleground, where the competing air masses conjure up violent storms.