As the US celebrates its 250th birthday in 2026, there is no better place to be during this historic milestone than ...

WASHINGTON — The statue in the Jefferson Memorial is 19 feet tall, but it’s the words carved in stone around the bronze figure that are truly monumental. Such as these, from Jefferson’s Declaration of ...

Second, the monuments and memorials – though certainly moving, appropriate, and important in that they keep us forever connected to our past while helping us progress into the future – primarily give ...

Wikimedia Commons/bnbnhjt The 1939 Marian Anderson Easter Concert (Washington, D.C.) On April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson sang ...

Yolanda Renée King is the sole grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King—and is just as passionate. She ...

The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating two separate shootings that happened just an hour apart from each other and in the same area on Sunday.

As Americans across the nation prepare to celebrate the 249th anniversary of their independence on July 4, 2025, the Fourth ...

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday that cleanup from the weekend’s military parade will take several more days but that there is no damage to report so far to the city roads or ...

Martin Luther King Jr., 15 Jan 1929 - 4 Apr 1968 Andrew Jackson Young, Jr., born 12 Mar 1932 Walter Edward Fauntroy, Jr., born 6 Feb 1933 Credit Line National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ...