After decades of demands from residents, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser on Thursday announced that her administration would spend $20 million to turn a long-vacant school in Northeast Washington into a ...

Members of the Yale and New Haven communities gathered this week to confer degrees on the Rev. James W.C. Pennington and the Rev. Alexander Crummell, two Black men who studied theology at the ...

A D.C. neighborhood that’s been undergoing development has finally received word about what’s happening to one of its historic landmarks. The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic ...

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church is holding two events to honor its Founder Alexander Crummell through a symposium titled, “Alexander Crummell and African American Activism in Antebellum” Sept. 10 from ...

Alexander Crummell was both an "object of curiosity" and a "respected figure" The story of Cambridge University's first officially recorded black student is being told as part of the university's ...

Preface : struggle, challenge, and history -- Introduction : reality and contradiction -- Frederick Douglass : superstar and public intellectual -- Where honor is due : Frederick Douglass and ...

Alexander Crummell is not a name that resonates in any list of black pioneers but his story as the son of a former slave who became almost certainly the first black student to graduate from Cambridge ...

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has given Ivy City residents hope that their small, 1.7-square-mile neighborhood near the Maryland border will not be “a dumping ground” for projects that others have rebuffed.

The story of Cambridge University's first officially recorded black student is being told as part of the university's Festival of Ideas. Alexander Crummell was an American minister and the son of a ...

The story of Cambridge University's first officially recorded black student is being told as part of the university's Festival of Ideas. Alexander Crummell was an American minister and the son of a ...