Posts tagged Marion Barry
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How the Black Power movement shaped DC as we know it
George Derek Musgrove, co-author of Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital, and a history professor at UMBC, argues that the Black Power movement wasn’t just a force in DC politics. It was the force for four decades. From the Civil Rights movement to DC’s first years of Home Rule to the resurgence of activism in the 1980s and 1990s, these activists were instrumental in shaping the District as we know it today. Keep reading…
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A grand Bicentennial project was partly built on Kingman and Heritage Islands. Now most traces have disappeared.
In the early 1970s, the District created a Bicentennial Commission to manage the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the American Revolution. DC Mayor Walter Washington wanted the District to have its own Bicentennial project, focused on providing new opportunities to young people by creating activity centers, and drawing new tourist dollars to city coffers. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Can you park here?
No more parking fraud (downtown)?; Clues for Purple Line in Charlotte; Monday morning problems; Vulnerability in Ellicott City?; Changes for Watergate lookout spot; Late-night for London; Future residents unite; Housing: a Presidential issue; RIP. Keep reading…
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The DC Streetcar starts service on Saturday. It took a wild ride to get here.
When DC’s H Street and Benning Road streetcar opens on February 27, it’ll run on rails that were first installed almost seven years earlier. We’ve been talking about this project since 2008, with hundreds of posts. The following is a little walk down memory lane to look at everything that’s happened. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Spring forward
The SSTC, finally!; Crime keeps climbing; Stagnating rents; What’s next for White Flint; Cities bring safer cycling; Remembering Marion Barry; Make the peds pay; Houston, we have a solution; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Park and ride
Far from home; All inclusive; No parking for you; Density debate; Never gonna give you up; Pedal up; Not in her, er, driveway?; Picture perfect; Facelift. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Protests in Charm City
Baltimore erupts; Silver slows; Mayoral legacies; Grow east young man; Let them roam; MTA moving on; The perfect spot; Building a Bridj; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: On the fence
Gaining momentum; Bike on; Congressional meddling; Slowing down; Around the corner; Curbing homelessness; Trailblazing; The many hats of Jim Graham; Sustainable Seattle. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: You’re fired
Falling Starr; Coming out of retirement; A representative scofflaw; Gentrification in Ward 8; Wells’s environmental vision; An urban state?; Rail smash; More housing for NYC; Google that ride; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The good, the bad, and the ugly
No ‘free-range’ kids; Legalize Airbnb; Old school or new school; Higher wages for VA; A safer Prince George’s; Proxy War; Parking oversupplied; Retire to NYC; And…. Keep reading…