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Vice President Harris Announces New Business Program in Ward 8 Southeast’s Sycamore & Oak Becomes Backdrop of Historic Announcement By James Wright and Stacy Brown WI Staff Writer and Senior Writer
5 Vice President Kamala Harris speaks before a capacity crowd at the Sycamore & Oak Retail Village. (Cleveland Nelson/ The Washington Informer)
Delegate Norton Reflects on Planning, Being on Stage at the 1963 March on Washington
By Hamil R. Harris WI Contributing Writer
Long before she was the District’s Delegate to the United States Congress, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) was a Yale Law School student and key strategist for the 1963 March on Washington as a member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. In the weeks leading up to the legendary march, Norton was at the table in a New York City brownstone planning the event along with A. Phillip Randolph, Bayard Rustin. and other key or-
ganizers of the event. “We organized the march in a big brownstone in New York and one of my jobs was to get people on trains and buses to come. I was doing that to the last moment so I got to fly back to Washington while everybody else came on trains and buses,” Norton told the Informer. Norton left New York so late
1963 MARCH Page 52 4 Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) reflects on what it took to help organize the historic m March on Washington 60 years ago.
Vice President Kamala Harris introduced a new business program designed to aid small business owners at the Sycamore & Oak Retail Village located on the campus of St. Elizabeths East on Aug. 4. “Our economy has not been working for working people,” Harris, 58, said to a capacity crowd. “Entire communities have
been left out and left behind– trickle down economics. Well, it benefitted big corporations and the wealthiest Americans but not regular folks.” According to recent reports, the U.S. has experienced a record number of new business applications, totaling 12.6 million under the Biden-Harris administration. Harris said when she travels throughout the country and talks to entrepreneurs, they say unanimously they face the same prob-
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Families of Mike Brown, Rekia Boyd Reach Global Stage of Years-Long Human Rights Battle By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer
As family members of Mike Brown prepare to observe the ninth anniversary of his police-involved killing, both they and loved ones of Rekia Boyd are coalescing around a legal battle against the U.S. government that they have taken to the international stage. Attorneys representing Brown and Boyd’s families recently filed a merit brief with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The brief argues that the U.S. government committed human rights abuses against
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