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NormalRichmondNorfolkOcean CityAnnapolisDoverCape MayBaltimoreCharlottesvilleLexingtonWashingtonVirginia BeachKitty HawkHarrisburg PhiladelphiaHagerstownDavisOCEAN:OCEAN:OCEAN:OCEAN:TemperaturesPrecipitationfor the 48 contiguous states excludes AntarcticaYesterday's National79° 12:00 p.m.
68° 1:00 p.m.
79°/61°
95° 1965
42° 191576° 10:44 a.m.
68° 1:00 a.m.
78 °/56°
92° 2010
37 ° 19 7279° 11:33 a.m.
68° 1:00 a.m.
78 °/57°
95° 1965
43° 1961Washington 1:52 a.m. 7:29 a.m. 2:41 p.m. 7:57 p.m.
Annapolis 4:56 a.m. 11:28 a.m. 4:44 p.m. 10:36 p.m.
Ocean City 1:04 a.m. 6:47 a.m. 12:51 p.m. 7:11 p.m.
Norfolk 3:08 a.m. 9:01 a.m. 2:53 p.m. 9:22 p.m.
Point Lookout 12:46 a.m. 7:47 a.m. 12:44 p.m. 6:24 p.m.
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66 ° 90
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69 ° 93
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73 ° 90
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72 ° 91
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69 °Sun 5:46 a.m. 8:24 p.m.
Moon 4:40 a.m. 6:55 p.m.
Venus 4:04 a.m. 5:12 p.m.
Mars 2:55 a.m. 2:58 p.m.
Jupiter 2:54 a.m. 3:01 p.m.
Saturn 1:19 a.m. 11:52 a.m.May 30
NewJune 7
First
QuarterJune 14
FullJune 20
Last
Quarter0.15"
6.16"
3.44"- 76 "
15.63"
0.23"
6.29"
4.10"
16.66"
16.62"0.15"
5.19"
3.34"
18.82"- 72 "
Blue Ridge: Today, mostly sunny in central parts; partly
sunny elsewhere. High 63 to 67. Winds west–northwest
10– 20 mph. Tonight, a starry night. Low 52 to 57. Winds
north 6– 12 mph. Sunday, mostly sunny; great day to be
outside. High 66 to 74.
Atlantic beaches: Today, partly sunny. A thunderstorm
in spots in the north; humid in the south. Watch for rip
currents. High 74 to 81. Winds west–southwest 7–14 mph.
Tonight, clear. Low 60 to 65. Winds west–southwest 4–8
mph. Sunday, mostly sunny.
Pollen: Moderate
Grass Moderate
Tr ees Low
Weeds Low
Mold ModerateUV: High
6 out of 11+Air Quality: Good
Dominant cause: Ozone81/ 6181/ 6375/6278/6278/6276/6380/6080/5981/5679/6 477/6578/58 79/6^376/5766/50 80/63
62°60°65°63°Waterways: Upper Potomac River : Today, partly sunny. Wind
west–northwest 6–12 knots. Waves 2 feet or less. Visibility clear. •
Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay : Today, partly sunny. Wind west
6–12 knots. Waves 1–2 feet on the Lower Potomac; 1–3 feet on
the Chesapeake Bay.• River Stages : The stage at Little Falls will be
around 3.90 feet today, rising to 4.20 Sunday. Flood stage at Little
Falls is 10 feet.
Albany, NY 73/53/t 80/59/pc
Albuquerque 92/59/pc 88/55/pc
Anchorage 66/52/s 66/52/s
Atlanta 83/65/s 85/68/s
Austin 98/70/pc 97/72/s
Baltimore 80/60/t 84/63/s
Billings, MT 64/47/t 60/47/sh
Birmingham 83/62/s 86/67/s
Bismarck, ND 78/58/pc 74/53/t
Boise 65/46/t 51/43/sh
Boston 74/60/t 73/60/pc
Buffalo 68/55/pc 75/63/s
Burlington, VT 72/55/sh 80/57/pc
Charleston, SC 86/69/s 86/69/s
Charleston, WV 73/54/pc 86/62/s
Charlotte 83/61/s 86/65/s
Cheyenne, WY 78/48/c 65/42/t
Chicago 77/64/pc 87/72/pc
Cincinnati 74/58/s 82/64/pc
Cleveland 69/58/s 82/67/s
Dallas 95/74/s 93/71/s
Denver 85/54/c 75/46/tDes Moines 82/67/pc 87/70/pc
Detroit 75/60/pc 83/69/s
El Paso 100/70/s 96/70/s
Fairbanks, AK 74/49/s 74/49/s
Fargo, ND 77/59/c 77/57/t
Hartford, CT 73/55/t 82/59/pc
Honolulu 85/72/pc 84/74/pc
Houston 95/73/s 93/73/s
Indianapolis 75/59/s 84/64/pc
Jackson, MS 84/62/s 89/65/s
Jacksonville, FL 88/67/s 89/68/s
Kansas City, MO 83/70/s 87/73/pc
Las Vegas 94/68/pc 86/63/s
Little Rock 85/63/s 89/68/s
Los Angeles 70/58/pc 72/57/pc
Louisville 78/61/pc 85/68/s
Memphis 82/65/s 87/67/s
Miami 90/76/t 88/76/t
Milwaukee 71/58/t 79/70/pc
Minneapolis 83/66/t 85/70/pc
Nashville 80/60/pc 87/66/s
New Orleans 86/71/s 88/72/pc
New York City 77/61/t 80/64/pc
Norfolk 81/63/s 80/64/sOklahoma City 89/71/pc 89/70/s
Omaha 87/71/s 94/69/pc
Orlando 87/71/t 91/71/t
Philadelphia 79/63/t 82/64/s
Phoenix 101/76/pc 97/71/s
Pittsburgh 72/54/pc 82/60/s
Portland, ME 69/53/t 73/55/pc
Portland, OR 60/51/r 59/50/sh
Providence, RI 73/58/t 77/58/pc
Raleigh, NC 81/61/s 87/65/s
Reno, NV 71/44/pc 67/41/pc
Richmond 81/61/s 86/65/s
Sacramento 76/51/pc 79/52/s
St. Louis 80/65/s 87/71/pc
St. Thomas, VI 85/78/pc 86/78/pc
Salt Lake City 68/51/t 58/43/sh
San Diego 66/60/pc 67/60/pc
San Francisco 68/53/pc 66/53/s
San Juan, PR 88/77/pc 88/77/pc
Seattle 59/49/r 58/48/r
Spokane, WA 58/46/c 61/45/c
Syracuse 69/52/t 80/59/s
Tampa 89/75/pc 91/76/t
Wichita 88/72/s 90/72/pcAddis Ababa 82/55/pc 81/55/pc
Amsterdam 59/47/sh 56/45/sh
Athens 86/69/s 84/66/pc
Auckland 64/57/s 64/59/c
Baghdad 102/72/s 107/77/s
Bangkok 94/80/sh 93/79/t
Beijing 98/75/c 84/58/pc
Berlin 62/47/c 59/45/sh
Bogota 64/50/c 64/51/c
Brussels 61/43/sh 57/44/sh
Buenos Aires 56/45/c 55/39/c
Cairo 97/73/s 99/74/s
Caracas 75/63/pc 75/63/pc
Copenhagen 61/50/c 63/49/c
Dakar 81/73/pc 81/74/s
Dublin 60/41/pc 56/42/pc
Edinburgh 60/41/pc 57/44/sh
Frankfurt 66/43/pc 61/44/sh
Geneva 73/48/t 68/47/s
Ham., Bermuda 80/74/sh 81/74/pc
Helsinki 58/44/sh 61/45/sh
Ho Chi Minh City 88/79/t 90/79/t
Hong Kong 88/80/r 87/80/tIslamabad 101/78/s 102/78/s
Istanbul 81/66/s 86/66/s
Jerusalem 88/64/s 90/65/s
Johannesburg 66/46/s 67/42/s
Kabul 77/56/s 74/56/s
Kingston, Jam. 86/78/t 86/78/t
Kolkata 99/84/t 97/85/t
Kyiv 66/49/pc 69/54/pc
Lagos 87/75/t 88/75/t
Lima 66/59/pc 65/59/pc
Lisbon 79/61/s 72/60/pc
London 64/47/pc 59/43/sh
Madrid 90/59/s 87/60/t
Manila 91/81/t 91/80/t
Mexico City 78/53/pc 79/56/c
Montreal 73/55/sh 77/60/pc
Moscow 55/44/c 62/46/pc
Mumbai 92/83/s 92/83/pc
Nairobi 75/59/c 76/58/t
New Delhi 104/86/pc 104/85/pc
Oslo 61/42/c 56/45/c
Ottawa 73/52/pc 79/58/pc
Paris 68/45/pc 63/45/pc
Prague 62/41/sh 60/42/shRio de Janeiro 82/69/pc 85/70/s
Riyadh 109/82/s 109/81/s
Rome 83/63/t 78/64/pc
San Salvador 83/69/r 81/69/t
Santiago 59/36/c 60/35/s
Sarajevo 71/48/t 68/51/t
Seoul 81/62/s 81/63/c
Shanghai 72/68/pc 78/73/r
Singapore 90/80/t 91/78/pc
Stockholm 51/42/sh 55/38/c
Sydney 68/53/sh 66/50/s
Taipei City 88/74/c 93/76/c
Tehran 83/70/s 84/71/s
Tokyo 78/66/s 82/68/pc
Toronto 71/53/c 77/59/pc
Vienna 67/46/c 64/45/t
Warsaw 56/46/sh 62/47/cToday
Morning
showerSunday
Mostly sunnyMonday
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hotTuesday
Mostly sunny,
hotWednesday
Partly sunny,
hotThursday
Hot, t-stormM Tu W Th F Sa Su M Tu W Th F Sa Su M
Statistics through 5 p.m. FridayDifference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: –0.1° yr. to date: +0.2°High: Pecos, TX 104°
Low: Angel Fire, NM 24°World
High: Sibi, Pakistan 118°
Low: Spence Bay, Canada 0°Weather map features for noon today.WIND: W 7–14 mph
HUMIDITY: HighCHNCE PRECIP: 45%
FEELS*: 80°W:
H:P:FEELS: 91°ESE 3–6 mph
High0%
W:
H:P:FEELS: 95°S 6–12 mph
High0%
W:
H:P:FEELS: 101°SSW 4–8 mph
High5%
W:
H:P:FEELS: 95°ENE 4–8 mph
High15%
W:
H:P:FEELS: 93°SSE 6–12 mph
High55%
Mostly sunny, with possible rain
Mostly sunny, with clouds midday
and in the afternoon. A few showers
or even a brief storm may occur late.
High temperatures will be around
80, with winds out of the northwest
around 10 mph and gusts just over 20 mph.
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TransAfrica Forum, which be-
came the preeminent African
American lobby for Africa. Several
local women activists founded the
Southern Africa Support Project,
which educated the Black D.C.
population about events in south-
ern Africa and raised funds for
insurgent groups like the African
National Congress. An interracial
group of activists formed the D.C.
Bank Campaign to demand that
D.C. institutions cease doing busi-
ness with the White minority gov-
ernments of southern Africa.
And all these groups came to-
gether to wage the storied Free
South Africa Movement, which
ushered the Comprehensive Anti-
Apartheid Act of 1986 through
Congress and forced Reagan to
break ties with that country’s
white supremacist government.
As this anti-colonial coalition
was securing its greatest success-
es, many D.C. residents drifted
away from African Liberation
Day. The Washington Post report-
ed that “several hundred” gath-
ered in Malcolm X Park in 1986,
and only 200 in 1990. The follow-
ing year, the A-APRP sponsored
its last D.C. rally.
Kojo Nnamdi, the longtime
WAMU radio host, who marched
in 1972, said that year’s African
Liberation Day “was the first time
there was a mass demonstration
held around southern Africa liber-
ation” in the District.
It was not, however, the last,
and the many campaigns it in-
spired made the city an epicenter
of the international effort to end
colonialism and White minority
rule in Africa.George Derek Musgrove is an
associate professor of history at
UMBC. He is the author of the website
blackpowerindc.umbc.edu and co-
author, with Chris Myers Asch, of
“Chocolate City: A History of Race and
Democracy in the Nation’s Capital.”chael) rallied members of his All-
African People’s Revolutionary
Party at the southern end of Mal-
colm X Park, while members of
the Marxist-Leninist-dominated
African Liberation Support Com-
mittee gathered at the northern
end. The African Liberation Sup-
port Coalition, a splinter group
led by Chicago activist Abdul Al-
kalimat (né Gerald McWhorter),
rallied a half-mile away in Ka-
lorama Park. All three denounced
the others, with Ture calling the
organizers of the competing ral-
lies “political amateurs” and Alka-
limat dismissing the A-APRP
leader as a “narrow” nationalist.
With its dedicated local activ-
ists and strong international net-
work, the A-APRP gained control
of D.C. African Liberation Day in
1978 and maintained it through
the event’s end in 1991. Putting his
own stamp on the proceedings,
Ture asked attendees to dress in
white to symbolize “purity, justice
and peace.”
Each year, participants staged a
short march through Adams Mor-
gan or down to Embassy Row
before retiring to Malcolm X Park
for speeches and entertainment.
The crowds were smaller but still
substantial, with 1,500 attending
in 1979, 3,000 in 1983 and 2,000 in- Vendors set up in the north-
ern section of the park, selling
Black history books, wax cloth,
shea butter and incense. Though
the entertainment was impres-
sive, ranging from South Africa
trumpeter Hugh Masekela (1979)
to D.C.’s own African Heritage
Dancers and Drummers (1983),
attendees always created their
own drum circle, swelling the
group that had been gathering
weekly in the park since 1965.
Many of the activists who were
not A-APRP members continued
their work in other D.C. organiza-
tions. A group of Capitol Hill staff-
ers and academics formed
Black nationalists and adopted
Marxism-Leninism.
Between 1974 and 1977, D.C.
African Liberation Day became a
cacophony of sectarian debate. At
the Howard University confer-
ence that preceded the 1974 rally,
organizers argued over the “cor-
rect” way to wage the Black free-
dom struggle at home and abroad.
In 1977, old friends and collabora-
tors were in open ideological con-
flict on the streets of the District.
That year, the civil rights activ-
ist-turned-Pan-African socialist
Kwame Ture (né Stokely Carmi-African American community,
from the revolutionary Black Pan-
ther Party to the white-gloved Al-
pha Kappa Alpha sorority. Almost
immediately, the members of the
coalition began to fracture over
strategy.
First to break from the group
were the liberal reformers, many
of whom believed they could bet-
ter achieve their goals working
through corporate America and
the Democratic Party. Then some
of the principal organizers, in-
cluding Sadaukai, rejected the
united front strategy favored byby Cleveland Sellers, Florence
Tate and other experienced young
Black Power organizers, endeav-
ored to do just that, forming the
African Liberation Day Coordi-
nating Committee and setting up
a headquarters at 2207 14th St.
NW. From this storefront, they
planned an international demon-
stration for the last Saturday in
May.
Black Washingtonians re-
sponded enthusiastically. School
board chairman Marion Barry led
the local steering committee, and
the Blackman’s Volunteer Army of
Liberation, a local drug treatment
organization, promised to serve as
marshals. Official Washington
was less supportive. In an internal
memo, FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover claimed without evidence
that African Liberation Day “rep-
resents a potential for extremely
serious civil disorders” and dis-
patched his agents to spy on ALD-
CC’s members and funders.
Between 10,000 and 25,000
people marched in D.C., and an-
other 30,000 attended events in
San Francisco, Toronto, Domini-
ca, Antigua and Grenada. The day
was a triumph.
Capitalizing on their success,
organizers transformed ALDCC
into a permanent African Libera-
tion Support Committee and com-
mitted themselves to establishing
coordinating committees in cities
across America that could host
African Liberation Day annually.
In 1973, they staged another D.C.
rally, with a mostly local crowd of
4,500 braving cool, wet weather to
raise $40,000 for African freedom
fighters. Organizers staged small-
er protests in 20 other cities across
the United States.
Though successful, the broad
coalition that staged African Lib-
eration Day in 1972 and 1973 was
fragile. Operating as a Black unit-
ed front, it encompassed nearly
every political persuasion in thepotent band of anti-colonial activ-
ists in the nation’s capital. In the
1980s, these organizers were criti-
cal to African American-led mobi-
lizations against the U.S. invasion
of Grenada and the Reagan ad-
ministration’s support for anti-
democratic forces in South Africa,
Namibia, Angola and Mozam-
bique. D.C. African Liberation Day
was also an important cultural
touchstone for many Black Wash-
ingtonians, who convened each
year to reaffirm their connection
to Africa and the peoples of the
diaspora — and to debate how we
could all get free.
Since the late 19th century,
many African American activists
embraced an international vision
that identified U.S. racism and
inequality as, to quote W.E.B.
Dubois, “but a local phase of a
world problem.” This understand-
ing of the relationship between
conditions at home and abroad
again came to the fore of Black
consciousness in 1971. That year,
the Nixon administration and its
allies in Congress moved to im-
port chrome from the brutal
White minority regime in Rhode-
sia, in defiance of U.N. sanctions.
The administration also decided
to continue providing military aid
to Portugal, which was desperate-
ly fighting to hang on to its colo-
nies in Mozambique, Angola and
Guinea-Bissau.
These moves outraged Owusu
Sadaukai (né Howard Fuller), a
lithe, intense Black Power activist
and founder of Malcolm X Libera-
tion University in Durham, N.C.
Sadaukai had recently visited an-
ti-colonial rebels in Mozambique,
who told him that African Ameri-
cans could assist in their struggle
by protesting U.S. government
support for colonialism and send-
ing money and material aide.
In early 1972, Sadaukai, joined
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50 years ago, African Liberation Day made history and launched a movement
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