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George Derek Musgrove

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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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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

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