Last week, we looked at the first public school for African Americans, opened in the Little Ebenezer church. Its explosive growth, fueled not only by the D.C. Emancipation Act but also by the law securing schooling for all children, meant that they soon outgrew their modest beginnings. And so, a new school – and this […]
There is a moment in the Folger’s production of Friedrich Schiller’s “Mary Stuart” that is so funny and tragic, you start wondering if what you’re watching is theater of the absurd. It comes during the second half, when Sir William Davison (played by Todd Scofield) realizes that following his Queen’s command will be the end […]
Barracks Row is getting its own yoga studio – Be Here Now Yoga. The studio, opening Feb. 15 in the former “The Family Room” space (411 8th St. S.E.), will offer meditation and yoga classes, as well as wellness and healing services for the whole family. The space is large enough for two studios, which […]
So you’re not celebrating Valentine’s Day this year. It could be because, like the better part of DC, you’re single and loathe the seasonal reminder of said single status. Or perhaps it’s because you’re not single, but your boyfriend refuses to be controlled by a commercial-driven, money-making agenda when he’s perfectly capable of remembering to show […]
I have written multiple times about schools on Capitol Hill, but there’s an important one that I have thus far missed. It’s an important piece of a tour I will be giving in April, as part of their Emancipation Day celebration. The first public school in the District of Columbia opened in 1806, next to the […]