Built in the 1920s to serve white residents of Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant, St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church in 1957 became the first church of the Washington Episcopal Diocese…

". . . public libraries can no longer afford to have a policy of business as usual . . . . knowledge has always been recognized as a form of social power." (Hardy Franklin, D.C. Central Public Library…

"If I'm criticized, then I've been heard." (Willie J. Hardy)

In 1966, poet Gaston Neal—described as "one of the most epic voices to ever grace the District" and Howard University student activist "Baba" Don Freeman co-founded the New School of Afro-American…

The National Council of Negro Women's relocation of its headquarters in 1995 to Pennsylvania Avenue was fitting for a group that has been so enormously influential in advancing the economic well-being…