Being the first monument dedicated to an African American, the George Washington Carver National Monument celebrated diversity amid racial tensions at the time. Its establishment opened the doors ...

The granite monument honors James Armistead Lafayette, who is believed to have been a double agent during the Revolutionary War.

The Museum of African American History and Culture will sit right next to the Washington Monument ... is the idea of the pastoral and the ordered landscape? How do you make an end to the ordered ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National African American ... its National Monument to Freedom ...

Although hundreds of people observed the double lynching—according to newspaper reports, the crowd dined on deviled eggs, whiskey and lemonade—no monument was erected to remember the brutally ...