Alma Thomas (1891-1978) was a longtime educator and a prolific abstract painter who spent most of her career in Washington, ...

which officials say will be the first rewriting of the city’s road map in nearly 20 years. The effort, titled DC 2050, will focus on Washington’s 25-year outlook as the city continues to grow ...

However, a new, interactive map is helping highlight many of those lesser-known sites. Several years in the making, the project—Black History Sites: Washington, DC—comes from DC’s Office of Planning, ...