Profs & Pints DC: An Unflinching Look at Freedom
• January 23, 2023

Profs and Pints DC presents: “An Unflinching Look at Freedom,” on the complex legacy and untapped potential of the freedom offered by liberal American democracy, with Elisabeth R. Anker, associate […]

Iranian Pro-Democracy Marchers Rally Before Ukrainian Embassy in Georgetown
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Saturday afternoon shoppers along Georgetown’s M Street seemed surprised as police shut down traffic to make way for a protest march of “between 500 to 1500” expected protesters (per a […]

D.C. Celebrates Emancipation Day with Parade (photos)
• April 17, 2022

April 16, 1862 marked the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. On that date, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act effectively granting freedom to 3,100 enslaved […]

‘Free Britney Spears’ Movement Brings Rally to D.C. (photos)
• July 15, 2021

The “#FreeBritney” movement was launched in 2019 to liberate pop idol and singer Britney Spears from the onerous legal conservatorship she’s endured since 2008 following her much-publicized mental breakdown. Spears, […]