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A few days after the Trump administration told D.C.'s mayor to get rid of the Black Lives Matter Plaza or lose federal funding, 7News was there as it was ripped apart. Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia introduced a bill threatening to revoke federal funding from D.C. unless Mayor Muriel Bowser renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza. 7News found Tuere Marshall gazing, as the letters that spelled “Black Lives Matter” turned to scribble. “The day when this was, oh my goodness, when this was constructed, it was amazing,” Marshall said. The pounds, drills and crumbles echo near the White House as...

House Republicans are drawing up plans to scrub Black Lives Matter Plaza from the capital, The Post has learned. The two-block woke eyesore, just steps from the White House, features the phrase Black Lives Matter in 35-foot-tall yellow block letters, written across the asphalt of two city blocks at the end of 16th Street NW. A “DEFUND THE POLICE” message alongside the mural was added by activists and later removed during roadwork in August 2020. “The House Oversight Committee and the Trump Administration are working on delivering a number of reforms to make our nation’s capital safe and end left-wing...

icago has long had a prominent downtown street named for Italian fascist Italo Balbo — but an honorary plaza named for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is an insult that goes too far, a group of aldermen say. So at a City Council meeting Wednesday, Ald. Brendan Reilly, 42nd, introduced an ordinance that would strip Trump's name from the small plaza in front of his River North hotel on Wabash Avenue. The move would punish Trump for "painting a distorted caricature of Chicago" on the campaign trail and for "comparing our great city to a decimated, war-torn country," said...

Feds remove Occupy campers from Portland plazaBy Associated Press Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - Added 12 minutes ago PORTLAND, Ore. — Terry Schrunk Plaza is clear Tuesday after police moved in around 4 a.m. to help Federal Protective Service officers remove Occupy Portland demonstrators. **SNIP** Camping is not allowed in the plaza. It’s federal property that closed at 10 p.m. Monday. Camping is allowed at two nearby downtown city parks, but King says the mayor and police have been clear that the camping won’t be allowed to spread to other parks.

FORT HUACHUCA — Another step in honoring the historic presence of black soldiers was taken on this Southern Arizona post Friday as six shovels of dirt were turned over, breaking ground on the Buffalo Soldier Legacy Plaza. The event was appropriate, as 2007 is the Year of the Buffalo Soldier on the post, so designated by Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast, former commander of the Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca. “I had no real understanding of what service they (Buffalo Soldiers) did for the country.” said James Kimo Williams, a Vietnam War veteran, a speaker at the groundbreaking ceremony talking about...

Wed Dec 4,10:44 PM ET The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree stands lit in front of the General Electric building in New York's Rockefeller Plaza, during the 70th annual tree lighting ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2002 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)