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 ...

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

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

Not any more. Washington is very much where it’s at – apart from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence at weekends of course – and it ...

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 ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech during the Aug. 28, 1963, march on Washington, D.C. Wikimedia ...

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 ...

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.

(Fun fact: The city of Washington, DC ... Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, World War II Memorial, Korean War Veterans Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...