February is Black History Month, and Lyft wants to help us celebrate with a special offer and a discount code. Read on: During the month of February, Lyft is offering one free ride up to $10 to local Black history museums, memorials, and Black-owned businesses in our community and others across the US and Canada. With 75% […]
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 […]
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 […]
In honor of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington, Capitol Hill Village and the Ruth Ann Overbeck Capitol Hill History Project are sponsoring a cross-gnerational commemoration next Saturday, February 23rd. We discussed part of this celebration a few weeks ago, and noted that participants are encouraged to write and share their […]