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Tag: Cease Fire Don’t Smoke the Brothers and Sisters

**FILE** Yellow police tape on the East Plaza with the Capitol dome in the background on Wednesday, March 13, 2019. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Posted inCommunity

Upcoming Cookout to Launch Moratorium on D.C. Murders

by Sam P.K. Collins August 14, 2019December 21, 2021

The 12th annual Cease Fire Don’t Smoke the Brothers and Sisters cookout and amateur boxing tournament, scheduled to take place at the end of August at Upshur Park in Northwest, will mark the beginning of a six-month moratorium on murders in the District, as agreed upon by event organizers and participants pledging to spread that message throughout their communities.

Hundreds of Black men, women and children converged Saturday afternoon on Upshur Recreation Center in northwest D.C. on during Cease Fire, Don't Smoke the Brothers and Sisters' 11th annual cookout and amateur boxing tournament. (Courtesy photo)
Posted inCommunity

Nonviolence at the Center of Annual Cookout

by Sam P.K. Collins August 29, 2018October 31, 2020
Posted inBlack Experience, Community

MLK Parade Tradition Continues in Historic Anacostia

by Tatyana Hopkins – Washington Informer Contributing Writer January 18, 2017October 30, 2020

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