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

by WI Web Staff 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)

Faith

Southwest Church Recognizes Historic Potomac River Slave Escape 14 Years Before D.C. Emancipation

by Hamil R. Harris April 17, 2024April 17, 2024

Dorie Ladner (Courtesy of Thirteen.org)

Remembering Dorie Ladner as a ‘Warrior’ of the Civil Rights Movement

by Hamil R. Harris April 17, 2024April 17, 2024

**FILE** D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (Abdullah Konte/The Washington Informer)

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

by WI Web Staff April 17, 2024April 18, 2024

Ramona Edelin

Ramona Edelin, Activist and Education Advocate, Dies at 78

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

Civil rights activist Dorie Ladner, pictured at a Freedom Orientation in Ohio in June 1964, died on March 11 in Washington, D.C. She was 81. (Courtesy of SNCC Digital Gateway, Herbert Randall Freedom Summer Photographs, USM)

Remembering the Life of Civil Rights Activist Dorie Ladner

by Hamil R. Harris March 18, 2024March 19, 2024

Gallaudet Street NE was symbolically designated Alexander Crummell Way, a move celebrated at an event hosted by Ward 5 Council member Zachary Parker on Friday. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

Ward 5 Honors Black History Heroes: Alexander Crummell Way Unveiled in Ivy City

by Kayla Benjamin March 15, 2024March 15, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris (center, in blue) walks across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 3, 2024, with hundreds of others, including the Rev. Al Sharpton (third from left) and attorney Ben Crump (third from right), in commemoration of the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march in 1965. (Courtesy of Vice President Harris via X)

Vice President Kamala Harris Joins Annual Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee, Honors Legacy of Bloody Sunday

by Stacy M. Brown March 3, 2024March 4, 2024

Greg "Judge" Poole (Courtesy photo)

Black History Month

Laughter from the Capital: D.C.’s Rich Legacy of Black Comedians

by Stacy M. Brown February 28, 2024February 29, 2024

**FILE** Media arts mogul Cathy Hughes launched her barrier-breaking work in D.C. as the owner and operator of the largest Black-owned broadcast company in the nation. (Ja’Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer)

Black History Month

Cathy Hughes: Media Arts Entrepreneur, ‘Truth-Teller,’ Barrier-Breaker, Living Legend

by Jada Ingleton February 28, 2024February 29, 2024