What a beautiful Shabat.
No, we did not have those glorious blue skies that prevailed earlier in the week. (Yes, I finally got a chance- or is that permission?- to be outside and revel in the autumnal season.)
What a beautiful Shabat.
No, we did not have those glorious blue skies that prevailed earlier in the week. (Yes, I finally got a chance- or is that permission?- to be outside and revel in the autumnal season.)
Today is actually Martin Luther King’s birthday. (No, it’s not next Monday. That’s just the convenient choice the government makes to provide a 3 day weekend.) Had he not been murdered (and, of course, still alive), he would be 90 today.
It’s Black History Month. And, I wrote about Freedom House (1315 Duke Street, Alexandria) a year ago. During its 33 years of operation, some 1 million slaves were sold or traded from this building. Interestingly, these actions occurred even when Alexandria was part of the District of Columbia- Alexandria rejoined the Commonwealth in 1847, after 58 years of Federal Control. (The slave house actually operated from 1828 to 1861; that operation ceased when the US government forcibly took control over the city of Alexandria at the start of the Civil War.)