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 ...

Although the Banneker-Douglass Museum is small, it's loaded with history. It's named for the Black scientist Benjamin Banneker and Black social crusader Frederick Douglass. Both of these men were ...

The restaurant’s name, Dōgon, pays homage to the Black auto-didactic astronomer and mathematician Benjamin Banneker ... community mirrors the rich Black history that runs through Washington ...

The Block Party is FREE to attend but get your tickets for the games today! Benjamin Banneker was one of the most famous black men in colonial America. He was a farmer, a mathematician ...

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 ...