WASHINGTON, D.C.—”Purple!” the crowd shouts, holding up delicately calligraphed invitations and waving them around like billy clubs. “Pur-ple! Pur-ple! Pur-ple!” we chant. We are standing in a sea of people at Third Street and Louisiana Avenue, inching across the intersection, the thousands of us eventually needing to squeeze through the metal gate that threatens to keep us out of the events,… return to article
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