Smith has been working toward this moment since 1992, when, as a DC Council member, he secured congressional permission to ...

But the president decided to start what may become a new tradition by sending a wreath to the African-American Civil War Memorial at Vermont Avenue and U Street Northwest in Washington.

Having previously collaborated on African American public sculptures ... placement of a historically accurate Civil War tribute. Since the Veteran’s Memorial Park in Rocky Mount lacked space ...

The African American Civil War Memorial, at the corner of Vermont Avenue, 10th St, and U Street NW in Washington, D.C., commemorates the service of 209,145 African-American soldiers and sailors ...

That Arthur T. Carter is spearheading an effort to build this Civil War monument sounds about right. Especially when folks ...

Spotlight on a letter from a young Union soldier interested in a commission with an African American regiment and ... the episodes Chandler Tintype and Civil War Letters, each of which looks ...

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek.

$120 million Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial along the Tidal Basin, the first D.C. monument dedicated to a person of color, and the African American Civil War Museum. Other can't-miss activities ...