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OWOLEWA/BOGAN: Patrols, Secret Police, and the Capital — Why ICE Signals a New Enforcement Era and Why D.C. Statehood Matters

by Rep. Oye Owolewa and Leah Bogan January 21, 2026January 23, 2026

The expansion of immigration enforcement, surveillance, and federal policing in the US is drawing from two distinct lineages of carceral control, the slave patrol and the secret police, and is resulting in record numbers of deaths in ICE custody and during enforcement actions.

The Struggle Is Real. The Fight is Still!: King Calls on Us to Continue the Fight

by Micha Green January 21, 2026January 21, 2026

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

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)

EDITORIAL: Rosa Parks’ Refusal to Give Up Her Seat Reminds Us That One Person Can Make a Difference

by WI Editorial Staff December 4, 2024

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)

MORIAL: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Roused People to Demand Equal Rights

by WI Guest Author December 8, 2021

John Lewis

Black Experience, Black History, National

Congressman John Lewis, Last Surviving Speaker from 1963 March on Washington, dies at 80

by WI Webstaff July 18, 2020December 21, 2021

Rev. Joseph E. Lowery (Courtesy photo)

Black Experience, Black History

Rev. Joseph Lowery, Civil Rights Icon, Dies at 98

by Hamil R. Harris March 28, 2020December 21, 2021

Letters to the Editor

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Rosa Parks Statue Long Overdue

by WI Guest Author December 11, 2019December 21, 2021

Juanita Abernathy (Courtesy photo)

Black History, D Kevin McNeir, Obituary

Juanita Abernathy, a Formidable Force for Civil Rights, Dead at 88

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor September 18, 2019December 21, 2021

Angeloyd Fenrick

Black Experience, Community

D.C. Pastor Reflects on Meeting MLK

by Hamil R. Harris January 17, 2018October 31, 2020