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SUMMARY:Could DC be the 51st State?
DESCRIPTION:Washington\, DC’s 700\,000 residents don’t get to elect a voting representative to Congress. In a year marked by the coronavirus pandemic\, protests near the White House against police brutality\, and the insurrection at the Capitol\, DC’s decades-long push for local control has heated up. In early 2021\, a bill to make the District of Columbia America’s 51st state was reintroduced in the Senate after passing the House for the first time in history last year. With President Biden – a statehood supporter – in the White House and Democrats in control of both chambers of Congress\, is DC on its way to becoming the 51st state? \nMikaela Lefrak\, WAMU reporter and host of “51st”\, a podcast about Washingtonians’ fight for representation\, will moderate a conversation about how the statehood movement intersects with the civil rights movement; why DC statehood could and should matter to people outside the District; and whether a statehood bill actually has a chance at success. Panelists include George Derek Musgrove\, a history professor and co-author of Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital\, Robinson Woodward-Burns\, an assistant professor of political science at Howard University\, and Stasha Rhodes\, Campaign Director for 51 for 51\, a coalition of groups advocating for DC statehood.
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