Ada Dupree and the Moses Cemetery: stories linked by race
Ada Dupree (1887-1991) lived a long and consequential life. She moved to the small Florida town of Esto in 1902 at age 15. For the rest of her life, she and her family were among the few people of...
View Article“Black lives matter, alive or dead”
“Black lives matter, alive or dead” — poet Siki Dlanga Several dozen people participated in a rally and march to support the recognition and preservation of the Moses Cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland....
View ArticleFenced Out: Enclosure and Racism in Montgomery County, Maryland
This is a dispatch from deep within the enforced social distancing imposed by the 2020 coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In 2006, a Montgomery County, Maryland, homeowner placed a chain across an...
View ArticleInfrastructure and Social Justice
I recently participated in a Society for Industrial Archeology online program featuring projects with a social justice element. The SIA program titled, “Infrastructure and Social Justice” included a...
View ArticleHistory is repeating itself at the site of a historic Black cemetery in...
Peter Paul Brown must be turning in his grave if he knows about the kerfuffle over one of the cemeteries owned by the Black benevolent organization he founded in 1867. The Philadelphia physician who...
View ArticleSilver Spring video shorts: Crivella’s Wayside Inn
This is the second of three posts featuring short video segments produced over the summer for AmeriCorps. The first in this series featured nostalgia and Silver Spring’s Tastee Diner. This clip visits...
View ArticleSilver Spring video shorts: Acorn Park
This is the third of three posts featuring short video segments produced over the summer for AmeriCorps. The first two covered Silver Spring’s Tastee Diner and Crivella’s Wayside Inn. This clip...
View ArticleMemories of Silver Spring’s Doughnut Shop
Last week, the Silver Spring Historical Society (Silver Spring, Maryland) invited its Facebook audience to share stories about a donut shop. The society (which really isn’t a society; it’s four boomer...
View ArticleAll the news that’s missing
How can a self-styled publisher/editor/reporter have “One Of The Oldest Women In The World” living in his community of only 20,000 people and not know it? Or, how did the Washington Post and suburban...
View ArticleAre there any Black history sites in downtown Silver Spring, Md.?
Earlier this week a Silver Spring, MD, community group hosted a virtual talk on historic preservation in Montgomery County. Eileen McGuckian (a former Historic Preservation Commission chair and...
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