Join us at “Live! at the Library” on Thursday, November 30, 2023, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the Home Rule Act of 1973. The law enabled Washington, D.C., residents to elect their own city council and mayor in 1974 for the first time since the nineteenth century. The evening will include a panel discussion on “50 Years of Home Rule” moderated by WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi (“The Politics Hour”) and featuring: Tom Sherwood, longtime Washington, D.C., journalist and co-author of Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C. Judy Richardson, co-founder of The Drum and Spear Bookstore and Eyes on the Prize documentarian G. Derek Musgrove, historian and co-author of Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital Kyla Sommers, historian and author of When the Smoke Cleared: The 1968 Rebellions and the Unfinished Battle for Civil Rights in the Nation’s Capital.
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