Considered the first significant protest march on D.C., a group of hundreds of unemployed men ended up camping out in several places along the Route 1 corridor. Continue reading →

While the old saucer was just part of the entryway, the new saucer is a spot to visit in its own right, a courtyard where people can meet up and small kids can run around. Continue reading →

A newly refurbished and extended one-mile trail allows bicyclists as well as walkers and runners to go along the southern side of the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River. Continue reading →

Although Greenbelt was built on former tobacco fields farmed by several Black families and Black construction workers had helped build it, African-Americans were not allowed to apply to move in until the 1960s. Continue reading →

The newest exhibit at the College Park Aviation Museum, located at 1985 Corporal Frank Scott Dr., tells the little-known story of the first black-owned and operated licensed general aviation airport in the country. Continue reading →

The Town of Riverdale Park will name the green space known as the “field of dreams” after Adam and Emily Plummer, a married couple whose life stories in the area are told in a well-known family biography written by their daughter. Continue reading →

Hyattsville was at the forefront of a movement in the 1910s to impose racial segregation block-by-block in U.S. cities, an effort worth remembering this Martin Luther King Day. Continue reading →