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Septima Poinsette Clark is an unsung hero of the civil rights movement. She proved that knowledge is power through her various education workshops and citizenship schools, enriching students with the necessary information to return to their communities and empower others. (Courtesy photo)

How Septima Clark’s Education Revolutionized the Struggle for Equality

by Mya Trujillo February 12, 2025February 13, 2025

Mary McLeod Bethune stands in front of White Hall, a building on the campus of her school Bethune-Cookman College (now University) in Daytona Beach, Florida, in 1955. (Courtesy of Johnson Publishing Company)

Mary McLeod Bethune: A ‘Potent, Ebullient, Unreal’ Champion of Education and Equity

by Jada Ingleton February 12, 2025February 13, 2025

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted on February 22, 1956, by Lieutenant D.H. Lackey as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott. She was one of 73 people rounded up by deputies that day after a grand jury charged 113 African Americans for organizing the boycott. This was a few months after her arrest on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated municipal bus in Montgomery, Alabama. (Wikimedia Commons)

Bill Would Make Rosa Parks Day First Federal Holiday Honoring Woman

by WI Web Staff February 11, 2025February 11, 2025

**FILE** Kitty Chaney, Virginia Ali and Sonya Ali read The Washington Informer at Ben’s Chili Bowl. In its 60th year, Virginia Ali says The Washington Informer is an important publication that should keep going. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

Letters to the Editor

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Happy 60th Anniversary, WI!

by WI Editorial Staff October 23, 2024October 23, 2024

**FILE** James Lawson (ufcw770, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons)

The Rev. James Lawson Jr., Original Freedom Rider and Apostle of Nonviolence, Dies at 95

by Stacy M. Brown June 11, 2024June 17, 2024

Ramona Edelin

Ramona Edelin, Activist and Education Advocate, Dies at 78

by Stacy M. Brown March 27, 2024March 27, 2024

**FILE** Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

Letters to the Editor

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: County Updates

by WI Editorial Staff February 28, 2024February 28, 2024

Black History Month

Addison Scurlock’s Legacy of Capturing Local Life, Black Culture Continues

by Kayla Benjamin and Micha Green February 14, 2024February 14, 2024

Phillis Wheatley

Black History Month

The Prevailing Legacy of African American Storytelling

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. February 14, 2024February 14, 2024

Langston Hughes worked as a busboy at the Wardman Hotel in Northwest D.C. in 1925, an opportunity that led to fame and continued literary success. (Courtesy Photo/Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Carl Van Vechten, 1939)

Black History, Black History Month

D.C. Plays Major Role in Langston Hughes’ Life and Career

by James Wright Jr. February 14, 2024February 14, 2024

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