>> The Washington D.C. Human Trafficking Meetup which tonight hosts freelance photographer Kay Chernush in the Langston Room at Busboys and Poets. Chernush will present photos she took while on assignment for the U.S. State Department in India, Thailand, Italy and Hong Kong in 2005 for their annual Trafficking in Persons Report which “serves as the primary diplomatic tool through which the U.S. Government encourages other countries to help fight forced labor, sexual exploitation, and…
TUESDAY Tonight: a major opportunity for baseball buffs. Join Lawrence D. Hogan, author of the new National Geographic book Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African-American Baseball, for a lecture with Hall of Famer Monte Irvin and current Negro League Baseball Players Association President Stanley Glenn. At the Grosvenor Auditorium of the National Geographic Society, 1600 M Street, NW. For tickets and pricing, head here. For literary snooty-pants types, two highfalutin…
A jubilent Mayor Anthony Williams announced today at the City Museum that the Montreal Expos would indeed move to Washington D.C. next year. The Post has the story, as well as the Associated Press and Reuters.(Meanwhile, bitter Virginians are blaming their governor.) According to the plan announced, the Expos first home game would be on April 15, 2005 in RFK Stadium, where the as-of-now-unnamed team would play for three seasons while a $400 million stadium…
Officials have broken ground on a new Negro League Legends Hall of Fame Museum on the 900 block of 12th Street N.E. last week, according to “>the Common Demoninator. When completed in Spring of 2005, the museum will honor the nearly 3,000 players who played in the segregated baseball league from 1920 to 1960:The D.C. museum wont be the first dedicated to the Negro Baseball League. Kansas City, Kan., already is home to one, and…