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Category: Black History

**FILE** D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (Abdullah Konte/The Washington Informer)
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Norton Floats Bill to Posthumously Award Congressional Gold Medal to Black Navy Officers

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Ramona Edelin, Activist and Education Advocate, Dies at 78

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Civil rights activist Dorie Ladner, pictured at a Freedom Orientation in Ohio in June 1964, died on March 11 in Washington, D.C. She was 81. (Courtesy of SNCC Digital Gateway, Herbert Randall Freedom Summer Photographs, USM)
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Gallaudet Street NE was symbolically designated Alexander Crummell Way, a move celebrated at an event hosted by Ward 5 Council member Zachary Parker on Friday. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)
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Vice President Kamala Harris (center, in blue) walks across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 3, 2024, with hundreds of others, including the Rev. Al Sharpton (third from left) and attorney Ben Crump (third from right), in commemoration of the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march in 1965. (Courtesy of Vice President Harris via X)
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**FILE** Media arts mogul Cathy Hughes launched her barrier-breaking work in D.C. as the owner and operator of the largest Black-owned broadcast company in the nation. (Ja’Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer)
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Celebrating 30 years, Step Afrika! has been a leader in exposing the District, nation and world to the power and beauty of stepping as a means of sharing Black narratives and culture and spreading joy. Step Afrika! performed with D.C. native Christylez Bacon as part of President Joe Biden’s 2023 Juneteenth Concert. (WI file photo)
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