Snapshot from the Mall, 1952, along Jefferson Drive NW, possibly at 7th St NW. The Mall was covered with temporary buildings left over from both World Wars. https://t.co/YYdu3mFPgD Snapshot from the Mall, 1952, along Jefferson Drive NW, possibly at 7th St NW. The Mall was cove…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Jan 21, 2022
Quote of the Day: "We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours." - Dag Hammarskjold
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Jan 21, 2022
President Clinton made history when he chose a historically Black church, the Metropolitan AME Church, for his morning inaugural prayer service #OTD 1993. He returned for his second inaugural in 1997. #DCHistory https://t.co/QVSSvAqCyN President Clinton made history when he …
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Jan 20, 2022
With co-producer @GastroSoul, we gather local restaurateurs from @DasEthiopian;@ElTamarindoDC; and @busboysandpoets to discuss food as a form of cultural diplomacy, activism, and economic stability in DC. (3/3) With co-producer @GastroSoul, we gather local restaurateurs fro…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Jan 20, 2022
What restaurants loom large in the minds of Washingtonians? From Mamma Desta, which first introduced Washingtonians to Ethiopian food, to El Tamarindo introducing the pupusa and serving as a community anchor, through waves of neighborhood development. (2/3) What restaurants…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Jan 20, 2022
Celebrating Restaurant Week #RWDMV? Learn more about how immigrant communities shape DC’s foodways at our virtual event on January 27. Sign up here: https://t.co/jiAR390bNU (1/3) Celebrating Restaurant Week #RWDMV? Learn more about how immigrant communities shape DC’s foodways…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Jan 20, 2022
Lead Belly's "Bourgeois Blues" was three minutes of rippling 12-string blues... It was also an incisive, damning indictment of the rampant Jim Crow segregation in 1930s #DC. #DChistory https://t.co/XyOSZB9rqd Lead Belly's "Bourgeois Blues" was three minutes of rippling 12-st…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Jan 20, 2022