History (23)
Rally Backs Teacher Fired for Election Bid
Written by Justin Blum | The Washington PostSeveral dozen students, activists and elected officials rallied yesterday to decry a federal law that requires the dismissal of a social studies teacher from the District's Dunbar Senior High School because he ran for D.C. Council.
Remembering Our Fallen Activists of Stand Up / Free DC
Written by Karen SzulgitFor Steve Michael, One Final Act of Protest
Written by Patrice Gaines & Peter Baker | The Washington Post- Steve Michael
- White House
- ACT UP
- AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
- Wayne Turner
- increase funding for AIDS programs
- restore home rule to the District
- legalize marijuana for medical use
- Bill Clinton
- President Clinton
- 1992 campaign
- funding for AIDS programs
- Barbara Michael
- Michael McCurry
- Timothy Cooper
- Stand Up for Democracy Coalition
- Anise Jenkins
- Karen Szulgit
Loree Murray, 88, Dies; Called Attention to Violence During D.C. Coke Epidemic
Written by Adam Bernstein | The Washington Post- Loree Murray
- Loree H Murray
- Loree Harris Murray
- Near Northeast Citizens Against Crime and Drugs
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Advisory Board of the War on Rats
- South African political prisoner Nelson Mandela
- war in Iraq
- District statehood
- Sen Lauch Faircloth
- Free DC
- Senior Citizen Police Academy
- Loree Grand
Activists challenge and reshape our social and political consciousness.
Written by KK Ottesen | The Washington PostStand Up / Free DC Mourns the Passing of Rick Malachi
Written by Anise Jenkins | FreeDC.orgMembers of Stand Up! for Democracy in DC (Free DC) are in shock at the sudden passing of one of its youngest, but most committed founding members - DuJuan Ricardo (Rick) Malachi!
Julius Hobson That One Time the Founder of the DC Statehood Party Threatened to Release ‘Possum-Size’ Rats in Georgetown
Written by Rachel Sadon | dcistHere’s a bit of D.C. history you may not have heard about, courtesy of the WETA blog Boundary Stones. In the 1960s, D.C. had a rat problem, particularly in its poorer neighborhoods.
I first met Acie Byrd, Jr. when I joined what was then just a group of people who were organizing out of outrage against the stripping of the powers of the local government by the United States Congress in July of 1997; basically in retribution to the re-election of Mayor Marion Barry.