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Mélisande Short-Colomb, a onetime Georgetown University student whose ancestors were sold as slaves by the institution nearly two centuries ago, passionately speaks about the people buried beneath the campus's Reiss Science building during a libation ceremony at the school on Nov. 5. (Matthew Bailey/The Washington Informer)

Libation Ceremony Honors the 272 Enslaved People Sold by Georgetown University

by Ra-Jah S. Kelly November 10, 2023November 13, 2023

Medgar Evers

Mississippi Leaders Unite in Plea to Honor Medgar Evers with Medal of Freedom

by Stacy M. Brown November 7, 2023November 7, 2023

Dr. Calvin W. Rolark Sr. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

The Washington Informer Celebrates 59 Years

by James Wright Jr. October 11, 2023October 12, 2023

In this postcard from the collection of McFarlin Library at the University of Tulsa, a photo from on top of the Santa Fe Freight office at 1st Street and Elgin Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is seen, showing the fires on Archer towards Greenwood. The Goodner-Malone company (1 N. Frankfurt) building is in the center of the photo. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Hughes Van Ellis, One of the Last Three Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors, Dies at 102

by Stacy M. Brown October 10, 2023October 10, 2023

The Sixteenth Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, where four little girls were murdered after the Ku Klux Klan set a bomb in September 1963 (Micha Green/The Washington Informer)

Black Experience

Remembering the Four Little Girls 60 Years Later

by Micha Green September 15, 2023September 15, 2023

Sister Nia X, president of the National Action Network’s D.C. metropolitan region chapter, counted among a bevy of speakers who graced the podium during the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington awards program on the evening of Aug. 25 at St. Luke Catholic Church in Southeast D.C. (Photo courtesy of Harold Goodridge)

March on Washington 2023

March on Washington Commemoration Brings Preservation of History into Greater Focus

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. August 28, 2023August 28, 2023

From left: Yolanda Renee King, Andrea Waters King, Martin Luther King Jr. III, Rev. Al Sharpton, an unidentified marcher, Robert Smith, and Sacha Baron Cohen on the front line during the 60th-anniversary commemoration of the March on Washington at Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 26, 2023. (Shedrick Pelt @sdotpdotmedia/The Washington Informer)

March on Washington 2023

March on Washington 60th Anniversary Emphasizes Continued Civil Rights Struggle

by Stacy M. Brown and Hamil R. Harris August 26, 2023August 30, 2023

This 1967 photograph shows Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (right) and his son Marty with the Rev. Walter Fauntroy in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C. (Courtesy photo/dcstatehoodyeswecan.org)

Faith

D.C. Churches the Bedrock for MLK, the Civil Rights Movement

by Hamil R. Harris August 23, 2023August 24, 2023

F.H.M. Murray, Alexandria’s Obscure Civil Rights Champion

by James Wright Jr. August 16, 2023August 16, 2023

In this postcard from the collection of McFarlin Library at the University of Tulsa, a photo from on top of the Santa Fe Freight office at 1st Street and Elgin Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is seen, showing the fires on Archer towards Greenwood. The Goodner-Malone company (1 N. Frankfurt) building is in the center of the photo. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Oklahoma Supreme Court Revives Lawsuit Seeking Reparations for Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors

by Stacy M. Brown August 16, 2023August 16, 2023