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 ...

A developer has received preliminary approval to construct a 30-home subdivision with affordable rental units on the site of the former Benjamin Banneker Elementary School in River Ridge.

The James Beard Award-winning chef’s new Afro-Caribbean restaurant, Dogon, will live inside the Salamander D.C. hotel near the Wharf and is inspired by Benjamin Banneker, the Black cartographer ...

High school students take AP® exams and IB exams to earn college credit and demonstrate success at college-level coursework. U.S. News calculated a College Readiness Index based on AP/IB exam ...

Records of the Columbia Historical Socie... Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C.

Benjamin Banneker Middle is a public school located in Burtonsville, MD, which is in a large suburb setting. The student population of Benjamin Banneker Middle is 781 and the school serves 6-8.

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 ...

The look builds off last season's uniform, which paid tribute to Benjamin Banneker -- an African American mathematician and astronomer who placed 40 stone markers along Washington's original boundary.