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How the Black Power movement shaped DC as we know it

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. ....

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A Hip-Hop Album, a Punk Podcast, a Black-Power Website, and Other DC Stuff We've Been Digging

Album / Aquatic Gardener, Godspeed (GÄD’SPĒD)
DC musician Jamal Gray’s latest project is this rich instrumental collection of moody hip-hop beats.
Photograph of Musgrove courtesy of UMBC
Website / Black Power in DC
George Derek Musgrove, a UMBC professor and coauthor of the essential DC book Chocolate City, is behind this en-grossing new resource (blackpowerindc.umbc.edu), which maps important sites of Black activism. It launches February 1.
Photograph of Guy Picciotto of the band Rites of Spring courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Podcast / End on End
Two appropriately unpolished hosts work through the entire Dischord Records catalog, album by album. You probably won’t hear in-depth interviews about most of these recordings anywhere else. ....

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D.C. statehood, finally? Inside the effort by a new generation of savvy activists to make it happen.

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D.C. statehood, finally? Inside the effort by a new generation of savvy activists to make it happen.
Nora Caplan-Bricker, The Washington Post
Jan. 27, 2021
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1of6Ty Hobson-Powell, a lead organizer for 51 for 51.Photo by André Chung for The Washington Post.Show MoreShow Less
2of6A sign describes the mission of 51 for 51. The organization s platform argues that a simple Senate majority of 51 votes should be sufficient to make D.C. the 51st state.Photo by André Chung for The Washington Post.Show MoreShow Less
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4of6Demi Stratmon and Jamal Holtz, two of the lead organizers for 51 for 51.Photo by André Chung for The Washington Post.Show MoreShow Less ....

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