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(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) WASHINGTON—To say that 2020 has been an eventful year in the nation’s capital is an understatement. Amid a global pandemic, a bitter race for the presidency and protests over police brutality, news in Washington never let up. As the year winds to an end, let’s take a look back at the moments of most drama, controversy, shock and sadness that headlined an exhausting 2020 in D.C. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi tears up the president’s speech during ...

Fifty-seven years after the first March on Washington, crowds are expected to gather this Friday to do it again. Activists will gather, amid the coronavirus pandemic and social unrest over police brutality and voter suppression, for Friday’s Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks, organized by the National Action Network (NAN). NBC New York’s Gilma Avalos reports.

On the one-year anniversary of Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts) introducing the People’s Justice Guarantee, a sweeping criminal-legal reform resolution created to dismantle a racist system that disproportionately targets, incarcerates, and kills members of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities, Pressley sat down with Kirsten West Savali, ESSENCE executive producer of News and Politics, to discuss her vision for the nation, the Black Lives Matter’s mandate for the inc...