20,000 flags to represent the 200,000 deaths.
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The D.C. General Hospital is being reduced to rubble. It was founded in 1806 and moved to this location in 1846. It was a public hospital until 2001, when it was closed during the city’s fiscal difficulties. It then became a notoriously bad large homeless shelter until 2018.
Read moreFoamy Homies
The Foamy Homies are on tour this week in D.C., bringing “Food Relief and Healing.” They are distributing free food, and last night came with their magical truck to the Mall to support Black Lives Matter and the out-of-work entertainment workers from IATSE Local 22.
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Society’s Cage is a temporary sculptural installation on the Mall, by SmithGroup. Situated between the Capitol and the Washington Monument, it’s an interpretive experience designed as a powerful statement of systemic racism. Nighttime view Daytime view Dismantling – 9/13/20
Read moreMarch on Washington
57th anniversary of the March on Washington, 8/28/20
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The RNC was staged at the White House and the Andrew Mellon Auditorium, barricading off the Wilson Plaza and the surrounding buildings from 8/24-8/27. Wilson Plaza Andrew Mellon Auditorium Park Police circling overhead White House setup, 8/24 On the last night of the RNC, Black Lives Matter Plaza was full of protests, music, and art. […]
Read moreTian Tian’s 23rd birthday
The National Zoo gave Tian Tian a party for his 23rd birthday, 8/27/20.
Read moreForward into Light
Buildings lit in purple and gold for the 100th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage, 8/26/20 Library of Congress National Archives Kennedy Center Projections on The Reach
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#SavethePostOffice rally today in front of the Old Post Office, aka the Trump Hotel Walter Shaub (former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics), organizer of the nationwide protests
Read moreFrederick Douglass Bridge Arches
The last arch on the Frederick Douglass Bridge was completed yesterday, and the tree that they put on top to celebrate it was still there today. There’s more than a year’s worth of construction still to finish on the bridge, but the arches are now complete. Here’s the arch earlier in the summer when there […]
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