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Chris Myers Asch
Chris Myers Asch is a historian at Colby College. He is the co-author of
Chocolate City: Race & Democracy in the Nation's Capital.
Library of Congress / The Atlantic
Don’t Fall for the D.C. Retrocession ‘Okey-Doke’
Retrocession is being used to derail what Washingtonians actually want: statehood.
Chris Myers Asch
and
George Derek Musgrove
May 5, 2021