Joseph Lowery: The Dean of Hope

April 7, 2020

The civil rights leader, a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, died on March 27.

Mayor Bowser Unveils Rosa Parks Plaque at Ceremony (photos)

June 1, 2019

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, 42 year old Rosa Parks ignored a bus driver’s demand to give up her seat in the “colored section” to a white passenger […]