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Fifty-eight years after the first March on Washington, demonstrators are gathering to demand the protection of voting rights across the country.
At 78, Howard Croft was part of a generation of heroes who risked their lives to challenge segregation. The Black civil rights activist’s death from covid-19 has left his family and D.C. community reeling.
100 years on, politicians still haven’t learnt from Ireland’s partition We are still living with the wounds of the Irish Civil War. Charles Townshend's new book The Partition tells a story that is not over yet 25 April 2021 • 5:00am January 1921: Sir Hamar Greenwood of the Royal Irish Constabulary inspects a group of Black and Tans Credit: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images One of the abiding problems with Anglo-Irish history is the tendency for authors to take sides. Normally the Irish writers side against the oppressive, colonial British. They cannot resist settling scores, and too oft...
Why the District of Columbia Should Not Be a State Commentary In June 1783, the Confederation Congress was meeting in what is now Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Continental soldiers surrounded the building demanding back pay. They were peaceful, but the intimidation was plain. Congress asked Pennsylvania authorities to clear away the demonstrators. Pennsylvania authorities refused to do so. Congress accordingly left Philadelphia for Princeton, New Jersey, thereby making that town the national capital for a short time. This incident confirmed the American Founders in their opinion that the...
Photograph from the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Update: The original version of this story listed the Senate bill as having 42 co-sponsors. At the time of publication, this number was actually 44. Passing along strict party lines, legislation to admit D.C. as the nation’s 51st state was approved by the House of Representatives on April 22. It marks the second consecutive year that the chamber passed such a bill, a signal that the statehood question has risen in the Democratic Party’s shortlist of priorities. Since taking control...