On the corner of S and 15th Street is a pretty grey-and-white house that once belonged to the woman who was responsible for one of the most active intellectual “salons” in the black community in the 1920s, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. This is the house of Georgia Douglas Johnson, also known as “Halfway House” because, as she said, “I’m half between everyone and everything, and I bring them all together.” She was a wife and mother of two, but she also was a prolif

At the intersection of 7th and T Street NW currently stands a school, a bank, a CVS and a Chinese restaurant. In the summer of 1919, dubbed the "Red Summer" by civil right activist James Wheldon Johnson, that intersection was one of the flashpoints where DC's black community took a stand against an angry mob who were on a rampage after an alleged assault on a white woman by two black men. The event was the catalyst for violence after months of tension following the end of WWI