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1 day ago · August 21, 2024. By. Lou Chibbaro Jr. (Courtesy photo) Longtime D.C. resident George Jackson, a highly acclaimed dance critic and historian who wrote dance reviews for publications including the ...
1 day ago · Longtime D.C. resident George Jackson, a highly acclaimed dance critic and historian who wrote dance reviews for publications including the New York Times and the Washington Post — all while working in his day job as a microbiologist for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — died Aug. 5 of natural causes at the age of 92.
4 days ago · The legacy of George Jackson and Attica lives on. The following edited remarks were made on a Sept. 2, 2021, live broadcast, “50 Years of Resistance: Black August & Attica,” sponsored by the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party. Moorehead is a Workers World newspaper managing editor and a member of the PSC.
1 day ago · John M. “Jack” Jones, the attorney who assisted James W. Rouse in acquiring the Howard County farmland that became Columbia, died Aug. 10. He was 95.
2 days ago · Maryland Democrats who saw the Rev. Jesse Jackson's speech at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, where he sought the nomination, credit it with opening the door for later Black nominees ...
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2 days ago · Jackson was a Democratic presidential candidate in 1984 and 1988. He founded Operation PUSH, an acronym for People United to Save Humanity, in 1971. He founded the National Rainbow Coalition in ...