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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 the State of the Union
Following President Donald Trump’s impeachment by the U.S. House in December 2019, he was invited by Pelosi to give his State of the Union address on the House floor on Feb. 4.
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 incoming Biden-Harris administration, and
why The People’s Justice Guarantee will fundamentally redefine what justice looks like in America.
“We who believe in freedom cannot rest.” Ella Baker
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts) is a woman on a mission a mission to serve, to lead, and to radically reimagine a new world in which justice for all is more than just an echo of a reality that never was. And she has remained focused on that mission with laser sharp precision