A Serendipitous visit to Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
I didn’t have a plan for the day, not really. I needed to get myself from Richmond to Maryland for a work conference that would start the next day, a friend in Washington, D.C. was celebrating her birthday and it was pissing rain. I sent my friend a text, asking if she had plans for the afternoon, […]
The National Woman’s Party & the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument
In my 11th grade history class, we didn’t have a lot of time. The state’s standardized tests dictated the priorities of learning for the year and they missed a lot. Our teacher, in a valiant attempt to educate us on the things the tests wouldn’t, handed out topics for us to independently research and then […]