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May 28, 1989. ( 1989-05-28) –. present. The National Memorial Day Concert is a free annual concert performed on the west lawn of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., in commemoration of Memorial Day from 1989-2019 and in 2022. In 2020 and 2021, the concert was broadcast on PBS and streamed, but was not live, as a result of ...
January 19 – Women's March on Washington (and many other local marches) February 16 – Take Back the Vote, march on Washington before Congress introduces the new Voting Rights Act. March 14 – Kids at Washington Liberty, Yorktown, and other schools near D.C, marched against gun violence. Kids wore orange and held big signs to protest.
Casualties. Arrested. 12,000. The 1971 May Day protests were a series of large-scale civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., in protest against the United States' participation in the Vietnam War. The protests began on Monday morning, May 3 and ended on May 5. Over 12,000 people were arrested, the largest mass arrest in U.S. history. [1]
EDM is notorious for being one of music’s largest boy’s club, with women making up just 11 percent of artists at electronic music festivals in 2015. And in 2014, just 18 percent of EDM labels included women on their rosters. “If you Google ‘female DJ,’ there’s not a lot of reputable female producers that come up,” Miriam Nervo of ...
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was designed by Henry Bacon, and was constructed in 1922 and 1923, following the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial. It is approximately 2,030 feet (620 m; 3⁄8 mi) long and 167 feet (51 m) wide. [3] The perimeter of the pool is therefore 4,392 feet (1,339 meters; 13⁄16 mile) around.
t. e. Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk movement that began during the early 1990s within the United States in Olympia, [ 1] Washington, [ 2] and the greater Pacific Northwest, [ 3] and has expanded to at least 26 other countries. [ 4] A subcultural movement that combines feminism, punk music, and politics, [ 5] it is often associated ...
Washington, D.C., band Bad Brains. Washington, D.C., hardcore, commonly referred to as D.C. hardcore, sometimes styled in writing as harDCore, [citation needed] is the hardcore punk scene of Washington, D.C. Emerging in late 1979, it is considered one of the first and most influential punk scenes [clarification needed] in the United States. [1]
www .metroclub .com. U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Architect. Heins & LaFarge. NRHP reference No. 95000441 [1] The Metropolitan Club of the City of Washington is a private club in Washington, D.C. In September 1983, The New York Times called it "Washington's oldest and most exclusive club".