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By Brenda Cassellius February 9th Washington Post at 1:08 p.m. EST Brenda Cassellius is the superintendent of Boston Public Schools. She served previously as commissioner of education in Minnesota. Last month, I returned to teaching in a classroom after two decades. As…..
By Donna St. George at 9:58 a.m. EST Washington Post Feb 8th 2022 Montgomery County voted to hire its first woman as schools superintendent — an African American educator who was a leader during the pandemic — a milestone in Maryland’s largest school…..
By Andrew Yang February 8th 2022 at 1:54 p.m. EST Washington Post Andrew Yang is the founder of the Forward Party and a former candidate for New York mayor and U.S. president. Here is one of the biggest problems facing America: Boys…..
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BY DAN SCHERE |JULY 9, 2020 | 4:35 PM The Gaithersburg City Council is reviewing the history of streets and other memorials named after people with ties to slavery. Among the names under review is Benjamin Gaither, the man after whom the…..
BY MARK WALSTON |SEPTEMBER 27, 2010 | 12:00 AM Bethesda Magazine For more than a century, the small stone building stood on the site of today’s National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, its weathered walls attesting to its early 19th-century origins……
At the Josiah Henson Museum and Park, visitors can feel the weight of the past. Interpretive exhibits based on Henson’s writing reveal details of everyday life on a plantation, while a log kitchen offers an immersion into an enslaved cook’s…..
David Rotenstein posted 12-26-2018 11:44 Preservation Leadership Forum Patricia Tyson has lived in her Silver Spring, Maryland, neighborhood for most of her life. She believes that the nearby Talbot Avenue Bridge, which is slated for demolition in early 2019 to make way…..
From JULY 1, 2021 ADVANCING PHILANTHROPY The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified mental health issues at an astonishing rate, with a swell of stress, anxiety and isolation that has consistently worsened since early 2020. While there is much to be optimistic about…..
African American historian Carter G. Woodson, date unkown. PHOTO FROM BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES No one has played a greater role in helping all Americans know the Black past than Carter G. Woodson, the individual who created Negro History Week in Washington,…..