Black Lives Matter Plaza’s end — like its beginning — is a barometer of the times
April 7, 2025
BY ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It started as an ordinary D.C. intersection — a tourist destination with a modest white church on the corner, notable largely for an unobstructed view of the White House across Lafayette Park. Then, in the pandemic summer of 2020, it transformed. The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police turned the nexus of 16th and H streets into a focal point for decades-old grievances over police brutality and racial inequities. Even before it was named Black Lives Matter Plaza, thousands of protesters descended there daily, many staying around the