Hundreds of black-skinned American youth chose to gather at the intersection of the U and 14 شار streets, ready to re-demonstrate in front of the White House, which is only one mile from their meeting point.
Since Saturday, Washington, DC, has witnessed tumultuous demonstrations against the killing of the dark-skinned American George Floyd, after he was arrested by police on suspicion of promoting a counterfeit twenty dollar dollar banknote in Minneapolis.
A video showed a white policeman putting his knee on Floyd's neck for minutes, hearing a victim saying "I can no longer breathe."
A Different History
This intersection has historical implications that touch sensitive strings in African Americans. From there, hundreds of thousands of demonstrations began sparking after the assassination of the leader of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, in 1984.
At this intersection, hundreds of thousands of others waited for the 2008 election result to celebrate Barack Obama's arrival in the White House, as the first skinned president in American history.
Young Malika Muling spoke to Al Jazeera Net justifying her participation in the demonstrations against the police, saying, "What we see as police practices against defenseless brown men is not justified."
Mulling noted that the gathering in this intersection "has broad implications for what he witnessed in historical milestones in the life of the American.
Yin Africans
At the same intersection, 21-year-old Theo Davis, met his friends al-Samar before walking toward the White House to demonstrate.
This intersection was known to have gathered thousands of brown skin and others to demonstrate as in previous cases, but what is new now is the march towards the White House, due to Trump's racist stances, which appeared in his tweets calling for the police to intensify with the demonstrators.
Mulling hopes that "the killing of Floyd's hideous, like all previous cases, after several difficult days, has not affected or changed the nature of the US police relationship with blacks."
She pointed out that "Washington DC police do not know these racist practices, because more than half of their officers are African Americans," and Mulling called for the need to increase the representation of blacks in the police forces in various American cities.
The symbolism of "U Street"
The "U Street" area is one of the most expressive areas for the history of African Americans, as it played a great role during the past two centuries in their cultural, economic and artistic lives.
The "Baines" restaurant is one of the most important features of the remaining area, and "Baines" was the only place that survived the devastating fire that witnessed the neighborhood after the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968.
Former President Barack Obama has been coming to this humble restaurant with his family and senior guests. The walls of the restaurant are decorated with pictures of many celebrities who ate one or more meals.
The region was historically known as an African "Broadway" and rich in its theaters, I feel black singers like Louis Armstrong and Duke of Allington.
However, the region has witnessed major changes during the past twenty years, which have driven many of its poor black residents out of the suburbs and replaced them with rich, white residents. Many immigrants from the African continent and the Caribbean moved to live within U Street.
The area is filled with restaurants, nightclubs and theaters that offer all kinds of music from around the world.
Since the Washington subway arrived in the area in 1991, life has returned to the region, and noise, vigil and gathering have returned with it.