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Islam in Washington, D.C. is the third largest religion, after Christianity and Judaism. As of 2014, Muslims were 2% of Greater Washington's population was Muslim. Around 50,000 Muslims live in DC. DC's Muslim history dates to the early 1600s, when the first Muslim residents were enslaved and formerly enslaved African Americans.
More than 192,000 African-born people live in DC and nearby suburbs as of 2019, just shy of the 194,000 African-born in New York. [38] This includes Nigerians with 19,600 residents and Ghanaians with 18,400. [39] By far, the largest concentration of Ethiopians in the United States are found in D.C. and the local metro area.
Borchardt, Gregory M. "Making DC Democracy's Capital: Local Activism, the 'Federal State', and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Washington, DC." (Ph.D. Diss. The George Washington University, 2013) online; Borchert, James. Alley Life in Washington: Family, Community, Religion, and Folklife in the City, 1850–1970 (U of Illinois Press, 1980).
Washington Bee (1882–1922) OCLC 10587828, ISSN 1940-7424 [31] [32] The Washington Daily News (1921–1972), predecessor to the Washington Star; Washington Globe [33] The Washington Herald (1906–1939) [34] The Washington Star (1841–1981), a national newspaper [35] The Washington Sun (1960–2010), African American issues
In September 2017, NBC announced they were to launch a new Telemundo owned-and-operated station based out of WRC-TV. ZGS Communications, owner of Washington's existing Telemundo affiliate WZDC-CD (channel 25), sold the station's channel allocation in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s 2017–18 incentive auction, accepting a $66 million payout to turn off its signal and continue ...
The Palisades, or simply Palisades, [1] is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., along the Potomac River, running roughly from the edge of the Georgetown University campus (at Foxhall Road) to the D.C.-Maryland boundary (near Dalecarlia Treatment Plant).
The author added that at that time, the Ethiopian area in Alexandria, Virginia had a higher concentration of Ethiopians compared to the one in Washington, D.C. In 2004 the Mayor of Washington, D.C. signed the DC Language Access Act, which provided government services in five non-English languages including Amharic. The Ethiopians were among the ...
WJLA-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Washington, D.C., affiliated with ABC.It is one of two flagship stations of Sinclair Broadcast Group (alongside dual Fox/MyNetworkTV affiliate WBFF [channel 45] in Baltimore), and is also sister to Woodstock, Virginia–licensed low-powered, Class A TBD station WDCO-CD (channel 10) and local cable channel WJLA 24/7 News.