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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D–DC) marked the 150^th anniversary of Emancipation Day in the District by marching in the parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, after beginning the day with a speech at a prayer breakfast held at the Willard Hotel. Norton spoke about her great-grandfather, Richard Holmes, who was a runaway slave here on April 16, 1862 when President Lincoln signed the District Compensated Emancipation Act, but was not freed by the proclamation because he was not a slave of a District of Columbia slave owner.

Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton will mark the 150^th anniversary of the District of Columbia Emancipation Day at two events. She will make remarks at a prayer breakfast Monday, April 16, 2012 at the Willard Hotel at 8:30am, and, at 11am, she will serve as one of the Grand Marshalls for the 150th Anniversary of the District of Columbia Emancipation Day Parade, marching down Pennsylvania Avenue from 3rd street to Freedom Plaza.

Washington, DC - Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton will honor the accomplishments of Reverend Jerry A. Moore, Jr. at the 10am service, and after the service, she will help unveil a new plaza named after him at the streets surrounding the church on Sunday, April 15, 2012 at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church at 4606 16th St. NW.

WASHINGTON, DC -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will march in the National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade Saturday, marking the 100^th anniversary of the annual celebration with 15 Girl Scouts from five different troops that meet at the First Baptist Church in Ward 4. The Girl Scouts range from five year olds to high school seniors. They will march behind the marching band from Ballou Senior High School in Ward 8.

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will be joined by D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and other notable leaders to commemorate the District of Columbia Emancipation Day with the "March Through the Monuments,"Today, April 11, 2012. Norton, who will speak at the Lincoln Memorial at 2:00 p.m.

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will announce at the start of tonight's D.C. Commission on Black Men and Boys forum, "Lessons from the Life and Death of Trayvon Martin," that she will introduce a bill to reestablish a federal grant program for states to develop racial profiling laws, to collect and maintain data on traffic stops, to fashion programs to reduce racial profiling, and to train law enforcement officers.

Washington, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that her Commission on Black Men and Boys will host a panel of four witnesses at a roundtable hearing entitled, "Lessons from the Life and Death of Trayvon Martin," on Tuesday, April 10 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the D.C. Armory. The commission, which Norton established a number of years ago, holds roundtable hearings and works to help resolve the issues that have a great impact on Black men and boys, including criminal justice, education, and chronic unemployment.