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50 Years Ago, D.C.'s First African Liberation Day Launched a Movement

The annual celebration helped spur an anti-colonial movement for Africa.

by George Derek Musgrove via Retropolis on May 28, 2022

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Protesters gather outside the White House, holding picket signs advocating for home rule for Washington DC.

How the 1973 D.C. Home Rule Act Enabled the Nation’s Capital to Govern Itself—With Oversight

Far from being a new debate, the discussion over extending home rule to Washingtonians has been around as long as the District of Columbia itself.

by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian Magazine on August 14, 2025

Ron DeSantis

DeSantis, Trump and The History of Treating D.C. Residents Like They Aren’t Americans

A history as intertwined with race as with partisanship.

by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on August 8, 2023

D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, left, House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) greet the audience at a town hall meeting at Eastern High School in D.C. in 1995.

House GOP and D.C.: A Historically Strained Marriage Grows More Tenuous

Republicans have long made a sport of deriding Washington, portraying it as a dysfunctional, crime-infested “swamp."

by Paul Schwartzman via Retropolis on May 13, 2023

Elephant trunk holding the D.C. flag.

There Once Was a Republican Fight for D.C. Statehood

From 1956–1978, Republicans backed D.C. representation, but now oppose it, reflecting a broader GOP shift against voting rights and toward partisan control.

by David A. Graham via The Atlantic on June 17, 2021

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