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Former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry Jr.'s legacy is honored with the renaming of Southeast's Good Hope Road to Marion Barry Avenue. New businesses, cultural activities, and traffic improvements are underway.

On display at three current exhibits, Maurice James Jr. blends American history with Black culture to put a new story front and center.

Updated on July 13, 2021 at 8:43 pm NBC Universal, Inc. A D.C. art gallery is on a mission to get people to buy Black art. When you step inside the Anacostia Arts Center, you are surrounded by bright colors and beautiful paintings, each made by a Black artist from Ward 7 and Ward 8. Download our NBC Washington app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. “We want to invite the city to come and invest in the Black creatives, the Black brilliance, that’s here in ...

One show focuses on east-of-the-river talent.