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It’s second Sunday; cooler than first Saturday, literally and figuratively.

>>Lincoln’s Cottage in Petworth is confronting the fact that more people are held in slavery today than during the heyday of the transatlantic slave trade, the Associated Press reports. An exhibit called “Can You Walk Away” commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation by calling attention to nearly 27 million men, women and children worldwide living a life of forced labor.

“Plenty of Americans see slavery as an issue that was resolved during the Civil War or by the 13th Amendment in the war’s aftermath, not as a growing humanitarian crisis in our own country,” said [Lincoln’s Cottage] museum director Erin Carlson Mast. “But fundamentally, the same issue is at stake: People’s right to freedom.”

>>The body of a woman was found floating in the Potomac River near the entrance to Rock Creek Park at K and 29th streets NW Saturday afternoon.

>>The National Museum of African American History and Culture breaks ground on the Mall Wednesday. The new collection prompts anxiety for directors of museums with a similar bent who fear that competing with the Smithsonian for artifacts, money and attention will be harmful to their institutions.

>> Tryouts to become one of the Washington Nationals racing presidents were held yesterday.

>>The Simpsons airs its 500th episode tonight.

>>The Washington Post asks “which was the most important U.S. election ever?“