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LOCAL LIVING District
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DC
community
news
in brief
Redskins to offer scholarship
to D.C. or Pr. George’s student
The Washington Redskins Charitable
Foundation is offering a $25,000 college
scholarship to a student from the
District or Prince George’s County public
schools.
Applicants must plan to enroll
full-time and pursue a bachelor’s
degree, have a 2.75 grade-point average
or better, participate in a college
retention program, be eligible for a
college Pell Grant and have participated
in interscholastic high school athletics
and community service.
The deadline is April 9. To apply, go to
https://apply.collegesuccessfoundation.
org/dc/.
Benning Neighborhood Library
to reopen in April at new site
The Benning Neighborhood Library
reopens April 5 in its new location, 3935
Benning Rd. NE. The library’s interim
location, 4101 Benning Rd. NE, will close
Saturday to move its inventory.
The 22,000-square-foot, two-story
building will feature 80,000 books,
DVDs, CDs and other materials, 32
public access computers, free wireless
JOEL RICHARDSON/THE WASHINGTON POST
Internet access and a mobile laptop cart The seven murals in the Recorder of Deeds depict prominent African Americans and their historical contributions. The building
with 20 computers. also chronicles black leadership.
During the move, patrons can visit the
Capitol View Neighborhood Library,
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5001 Central Ave. SE. For information,
go to dclibrary.org.
As office moves, will history remain?
City arts commission seeks
ASHINGTON POST
student works for exhibit
The D.C. Commission on the Arts and
Fate of murals and relics of black history at D.C. Recorder of Deeds unknown
Humanities is seeking artwork from
students in public and charter schools But this isn’t a museum. It’s a chronicles a long history of black
for an exhibit highlighting the 2009-10 by Nicole Norfleet government office building. leadership. Of the dozen oil portraits of
academic year. Since its construction in 1942, the former deeds recorders hanging on the
Each school can submit three works. When visitors walk into the lobby, they Recorder of Deeds building, 515 D St. NW, halls, only a couple are of white officials.
Applications should be completed and are greeted by the likenesses of Frederick has saved a record of every sale or Most recorders have been black, starting

submitted by art teachers. Douglass and President Franklin D. transfer of property in the District, with abolitionist Douglass, who was
THURSD
Selections will appear in a gallery Roosevelt. If they take a right at the including mortgages, land deeds, appointed by President James A. Garfield
show and reception June 4 at the statue of a shirtless President Abraham livestock records and slavery documents. in 1881. For decades, the title was the
Historical Society of Washington. Lincoln, they will be flanked by four After more than 60 years, the office highest obtained by any African
A
The deadline is March 19. For murals, one showing Gen. Andrew will be relocated to a smaller, more American in Washington. Y
information, go to dcarts.dc.gov. Jackson on a white horse at the Battle of modern space, but the fate of the historic “There’s a lot of history in this
,
MARCH
New Orleans and another a dying Col. building and its relics has yet to be building,” said Larry Todd, the current
Robert Gould Shaw being held by a decided. recorder of deeds.
briefs continued on 27 soldier of his Massachusetts 54th Ironically, the same building that
Regiment during the Civil War. houses manumission deeds also murals continued on 20
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