Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bloomington civic leader Elizabeth Eagleson Bridgwaters stands outside the Banneker Community Center on West Seventh Street in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BALTIMORE -- Baltimore County native Benjamin Banneker's contributions to Black history are stories of resilience, activism, and ...

(Updated 3:25 p.m.) After years of planning, Arlington County is ready to put money into the planned renovation of Benjamin Banneker Park. The 12.5 acres park at 1680 N. Sycamore Street features the ...

One of the uncommon Americans of the eighteenth century is a man so neglected today that the Dictionary of American Biography, which lists the great and the not-so-great of the past, does not bother ...

Many people who have a passing familiarity with Washington, D.C. know it was originally styled after famous European capitals by architect Pierre Charles L’Enfant, then completed by Andrew Ellicott ...

As Black History Month enters its final weekend, I thought it might be interesting to bring up the subject of Benjamin Banneker. While there is some controversy about Banneker's place in history, it ...

When poet and creative writer Rachel Jamison Webster attended a cousin's wedding, she was surprised to discover that her family is related to famed mathematician and naturalist Benjamin Banneker. This ...

SOLEDAD: WELCOME BACK TO "MAERTT OFAC FT." IT HAPPENS EVERY COUPLE OF DECADES. EVERY 17 YEARS TO BE EXA.CT THE APPEARANCE OF A DRONING CHORUS OF CICAS.DA THIS YEAR, YOU’VE HEARD THEIR SHRILL TONES IN ...

Benjamin Banneker – a free Black man born in 1731 – is best known for a land survey that established the original borders of Washington, D.C. But the naturalist also broke ground in another field: ...

On August 19, 1791, Benjamin Banneker wrote a lengthy letter to Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, in which "having taken up my pen in order to direct to you as a present, a copy of an ...