In the past half-year, local artists have struggled with financial, professional and mental health challenges.

Some poultry workers in the Delmarva peninsula say the industrial work model often compromises their safety.

“We are a city known for monuments and memorials—but it’s the humble places like Barry Farm that speak to the stories of Washingtonians who shaped this city.”

“He had a commitment to African American institutions and to architecture that was palpable and inspiring,” said Kinshasha Holman Conwill of NMAAHC.

“I think we can say we’ve made the decision—to do it again next year and maybe we can say for the foreseeable future.”

Laws vary across the Washington area.

Many are excited about adding the connection over the Anacostia River, but a contingent of rowers worries it will impede their route.

“It gives me a thrill to see something heavy hanging high like it has no weight,” the artist says.

“I don’t care about precision,” the artist says. “I care about things that make you feel something.”

For photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales, the Underground Railroad had always been something she learned about in school or read about in books—but she hadn’t seen it.