Kenithia Alston in The Post: What it’s like when the cops kill your son
D.C. police shot Marqueese two years ago. They still won’t say why.
Yearly Archives
2020
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson in The Post: It’s time for D.C. to regulate police surveillance technology
The time has come for the District to regulate police surveillance technologies. This month, the New York City Council approved the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act. It was a monumental victory for police transparency,…
Washington Post: House of Representatives scheduled to vote on D.C. statehood Friday
The House is scheduled to vote Friday afternoon on legislation that would make the District of Columbia the nation’s 51st state, a historic milestone in the fight for statehood that is expected to pass the majority-Democratic chamber.
Washington Post: Dupont Circle Farmers Market adds new vendors after black businesses said they were…
When Toyin Alli saw Freshfarm, an organization that operates 30 farmers markets in the Washington region, advertise its black vendors on Instagram, her eyes narrowed and her heartbeat quickened.
WTOP: Bowser: Stay home for Fourth of July amid coronavirus pandemic
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser urged residents and visitors to the nation’s capital to stay home this Independence Day during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Rebekah Bryer in The Post: Yes, D.C.’s Emancipation Memorial advances white supremacy
The statue needs more nuance that highlights black agency.
David W. Blight in The Post: Yes, the Freedmen’s Memorial uses racist imagery. But don’t tear it…
The Freedmen’s Memorial in Washington is not a Confederate monument. It famously exhibits a standing Abraham Lincoln seemingly giving freedom to a kneeling black man naked from the waist up, whose chains are being broken. It was and is a…
Letter to the Editor of The Post: A better name for the Washington football team
The District sits on Piscataway ancestral lands; it was of the Nacotchtank Indians of the Piscataway empire. Our people were of the first to be colonized and forced into assimilation. Centuries later, Daniel Snyder finds it okay to…
The Guardian: ‘A matter for democracy’: why DC’s bid for statehood is returning to the House
DC has been trying to make its case to join the union for decades as its residents have long found themselves in a constitutional black hole
District Links: Council panel backs $15M cut to mayor’s proposed MPD budget; Tom Cotton…
Happy Thursday. The DC Council remains in the early stages of its budget deliberations, but it's already making waves with a $15M cut to the mayor's proposed spending for the Metropolitan Police Department.
Press Release: Norton, Beyer Federal Police Body Camera Bill Passes House as Part of Police Reform…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
June 25, 2020
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) announced that their Federal Police Camera and…
Washington Post: Sen. Tom Cotton praises Wyoming as ‘working-class state’ in arguing against D.C.…
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) argued Thursday that the District of Columbia does not deserve to be a state, asserting that while Wyoming has a smaller population, it has a greater right because it’s a “well-rounded working-class state.”
Street Sense: Bowser’s budget cuts funding for affordable housing. Advocates say DC’s Black…
Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed budget will reduce funding for affordable housing in fiscal year 2021 and disproportionately hurt the District’s Black residents, housing experts say.
Street Sense: 2-day sit-in across from the Wilson Building protests DC police budget expansion
On the evening of June 16, more than 100 people gathered in Freedom Plaza, across the street from the Wilson Building and down the block from the White House, to watch the documentary “13th” and television series “Trigger Warning with…
Washington Post: Protesters denounce Abraham Lincoln statue in D.C., urge removal of Emancipation…
Police in the nation’s capital were bracing Thursday night for protesters who planned to denounce and urge the removal of a statue of Abraham Lincoln, paid for by people who had been enslaved, that celebrates emancipation and depicts the…
Washington Post: Howard University to bring students back in fall for a mix of in-person and online…
Students will return to Howard University in August for a mix of in-person and online classes, the school announced Thursday, but campus life will be far from normal.
WTOP: Stakeholders react to $15M in proposed cuts to DC police budget
After weeks of demonstrations, hundreds of citizens offering public testimony and calls to “defund the police,” a D.C. committee that oversees the police department budget has proposed cutting its expected increased funding by $15 million.…
Washington Post: D.C. activists and lawmakers confront challenges of ‘defund police’ movement
D.C. lawmakers on Thursday advanced measures to cut $15 million from the police department budget, a change that defund-the-police activists dismissed as insufficient and the police chief warned could result in the loss of hundreds of…
WTOP: ‘An American issue’: DC statehood bill supporters rally on eve of House vote
A host of local and federal leaders gathered on Thursday to praise the D.C. statehood bill, which is expected to pass the House on Friday for the first time ever, and to throw elbows at the bill’s critics.
WTOP: DC eyes fate of Emancipation statue in Lincoln Park
A statue of President Abraham Lincoln standing over a freed slave in D.C. is under renewed scrutiny, with protesters announcing their intention to tear down the monument Thursday.