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 ...

click image for close-up The cover of Benjamin Banneker's 1795 Almanac features a woodcut portrait of the author, scientist, mathematician, farmer, astronomer, publisher and urban planner ...

EACH OF JABARI’S PIECES TELL A STORY. THIS PIECE IS MY INTERPRETATION OF BENJAMIN BANNEKER. SOME ABOUT HISTORIC FIGURES, SOME ABOUT EVERYDAY PEOPLE. BUT ALL HONORING THIS SACRED SPACE.

Efforts to acknowledge the contributions of African Americans are intertwined with illuminating cultural preservation milestones. For example, The Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum, located at 84 ...

Although the Banneker-Douglass Museum is small, it's loaded with history. It's named for the Black scientist Benjamin Banneker and Black social crusader Frederick Douglass. Both of these men were ...

Toronto-based interior design firm Mason Studio encapsulates the US capital’s cultural codes in new Washington, DC hotel, the Kimpton Banneker. The hotel, named after Black innovator Benjamin Banneker ...