The corner of 14th and U was the grapevine. . . . If you were at that corner, you always had the sense that something big was about to happen.

The Seafarers Yacht Club of Washington, DC, established in 1944, is the oldest African American boat club on the East Coast and represents a step in the long process of equal access to public…

“… heavy, heavy is the load That bends my body to the road.” (Georgia Douglas Johnson, The Ordeal)

In mid-June 1919, a group of Navy Yard employees, all veterans of World War I, gathered during their lunch break and formed an all-Black unit of a newly established organization, the American Legion,…

“Hardly anything of significance to Washington – and most particularly to black Washington – came to fruition without Billy Simpson’s significant – albeit non-public – role in it.”