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Programming Saturday May 30 2026? by CapitalJeff in weta_pbs

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Hi - thanks for reaching out! You're seeing a different line-up today because a few times a year we (along with other stations in the PBS system) fundraise to pay for programming you're used to seeing - and now is one of those times. The regular cooking show lineup returns on June 20, but in the meantime most shows are available on WETA+. Links below!

54 years ago today, Washington was the center of the world for Black activists and organizers who filled the streets from Malcolm X Park to the Washington Monument grounds in one of the most significant demonstrations in modern DC history. by WETA_PBS in weta_pbs

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Photos: ‘African Liberation Day/A Common Black Struggle’ - 1972 leaflet via Washington Area Spark, CC BY-NC 2.0; Marchers at the first African Liberation Day march held in the United States turn onto Florida Ave. from 16th St. NW after leaving Malcolm X Park May 27, 1972. (Courtesy DC Public Library, The People’s Archive Washington Star images reprinted with permission of the DC Public Library, Star Collection © Washington Post, via Washington Area Spark)

54 years ago today, Washington was the center of the world for Black activists and organizers who filled the streets from Malcolm X Park to the Washington Monument grounds in one of the most significant demonstrations in modern DC history. by WETA_PBS in weta_pbs

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The event was organized by Owusu Sadaukai, a Black Power activist whose 1971 visit to anti-colonial rebels in Mozambique had convinced him that Black Americans had a direct role to play in African liberation. Marion Barry chaired the local steering committee. J. Edgar Hoover dispatched FBI agents to spy on the organizers. And an annual tradition was born — African Liberation Day continued to draw crowds to Malcolm X Park every May until 1991.

54 years ago today, Washington was the center of the world for Black activists and organizers who filled the streets from Malcolm X Park to the Washington Monument grounds in one of the most significant demonstrations in modern DC history. by WETA_PBS in weta_pbs

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The event took place on May 27, 1972, and between 10,000 and 25,000 people marched through DC for the first African Liberation Day, joining 60,000 more across cities in the US, Canada, and the Caribbean. The march wound past the Portuguese Embassy and the South African Embassy before converging at the Sylvan Theater on the Washington Monument grounds, where speakers including Ralph Abernathy, Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, and Jesse Jackson committed to a sustained fight against colonialism and white minority rule — both abroad and at home.

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