Some local Black activists forged connections with Palestinian activists during 2020 racial justice protests. They see a shared a struggle when looking at both their histories and modern-day experiences.

Helicopters flew so low over a crowd of protesters in downtown D.C. that the wind brushed debris, dirt, and glass into their faces.

The oral history project will focus on the 1968 riots and 2020 BLM protests. The resulting monologues will be archived in the D.C. Public Library and hit the stage in spring 2023.

This weekend’s demonstrations drew significantly less massive crowds than the marches against police violence last summer.

The parties settled for an undisclosed sum, which journalist Kian Kelley-Chung says will help fund his film on the D.C. protest movement.

The center of the plaza will remain designated for pedestrians and protected from cars.

“I had never been arrested before. I had never been looked at in that way as a potential felon before,” Kian Kelley-Chung says. “So that was all just a scary experience.”

D.C. Councilmember Brianne Nadeau is at odds with the mayor’s office and D.C. police over “reckless overspending” and a reallocation of city funds.

Demonstrators held a vigil for Hylton at the spot where he died last week before marching to the Fourth District police station.

Family and friends dispute MPD’s version of events in a traffic stop that ended in the death of a 20-year-old Black man.