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Music History
When Bob Dylan played the Washington Coliseum in 1965, a local photographer sneaked backstage and took a photo that ended up winning a Grammy for Best Album cover.
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It Happened Here
Looking at old photos of Isaac Newton Square in Reston, Virginia you would never guess that a silent killer once lurked here.
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Washington in the 1980s
On October 11, 1987, a quilt blanketed the National Mall, but the atmosphere in Washington was far from warm and fuzzy.
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Urban Renewal in D.C.
The Tivoli, a once grand movie theater, became a site for a massive debate over urban renewal in Columbia Heights in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Local Activists and Black Churches
In the 1940s and 50s, DC's Black churches supported parents-turned-activists as they took on school segregation in Washington.