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SUMMARY:DC Mayoral Candidate Forum
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereJoin us on Tuesday\, May 5\, 2026 from 7-9 pm at Hill Center for a candidate forum with the Democratic candidates for the DC mayor’s race. \nSubmit your questions in advance to debate@hillrag.com. \nThis event is co-hosted by the DC Democrats\, the Ward 6 Democrats\, the Ward 2 Democrats\, Capital Community News (the Hill Rag\, East of the River News\, and Midcity DC News)\, Spotlight DC\, Transmission\, and the Hill Center. \nDue to space constraints\, we will be capping registration at 140 people\, but the forum will also be live broadcast on the Hill Center’s Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/hillcenter. \nRSVP here!
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/dc-mayoral-candidate-forum/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Overbeck Lecture: Samplers\, Students\, and Sailmakers: A Portrait of Federal-Era Capitol Hill
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereFederal-era Capitol Hill has left few markers on our cityscape and few artifacts survive to tell its tale. Surprisingly\, a special group of textiles (usually ephemeral) created by girls (often invisible in records and histories) offers the best jumping-off point for painting a picture of 1810s-1820s Navy Yard and Capitol Hill populations.\nRecent research into these embroidered samplers reveals they were made by daughters of Navy Yard workers attending the school run by progressive abolitionist educator John McLeod and his wife Rebecca. The samplers and the research that followed will be the subject of the May 4th Overbeck Capitol Hill History Lecture.\nUsing church records\, maps\, property records\, paintings\, and the earliest city directory\, Alden O’Brien\, recently retired curator of costumes and textiles at the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) Museum\, will delve into the sampler makers’ families and through them the population distribution and demographics of early residential Capitol Hill.\nMs. O’Brien has lived on the Hill since moving to the District in 1989 and worked at the DAR Museum for more than 35 years.  While serving as an archivist at Christ Church on G Street\, SE\, she became fascinated with early 19th-century Capitol Hill and began mapping Hill residents listed in the 1822 City Directory.\nThe 7 pm lecture on Samplers\, Students\, and Sailmakers will be held at Hill Center\, Old Naval Hospital\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE (www.hillcenterdc.org; 202-549-4172)\, on Monday May 4. Admission is free. Reservations can be made starting April 20. Seating will begin at 6:30 pm; the power point presentation will begin at 7 pm. \n 
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/overbeck-lecture-samplers-students-and-sailmakers-a-portrait-of-federal-era-capitol-hill/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Rise of Christian Nationalism: Film Screening and Panel Discussion with Former Church Members Featured in the Film
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereScreening Courtesy of CNN \nIn this CNN documentary\, which first aired on CNN March 22\, Pamela Brown examines the growing influence of Christian nationalism in American society; exploring how a movement once largely confined to the margins of white evangelical culture has gained new visibility and political power. \nCNN Chief Investigative Correspondent Pamela Brown examines the growing influence of Christian nationalism\, an ideology rooted in the belief that the United States was founded as a Christian nation and that its laws and institutions should reflect Christian values. Through immersive reporting and on-the-ground access\, the film explores how a movement once largely confined to the margins of white evangelical culture has gained new visibility and political power. \n\n“My reporting for this hour began early last year when I visited Moscow\, Idaho to interview Pastor Douglas Wilson. The response to that report was overwhelming and highlighted the need to better understand this movement working to redefine America as a Christian nation in the home\, in a marriage\, in schools and in government\,” said Brown.  “We embedded with a community under Pastor Wilson’s umbrella and spoke to women who have left the church and are now sounding the alarm. No matter where you live or what you believe\, what we learned is especially consequential at this moment.” \nIn “The Rise of Christian Nationalism\,” Brown travels to faith-centered communities where Christian nationalist ideas shape daily life\, education\, and governance. She sits down with prominent religious leaders who have helped build networks of churches and schools designed to instill a strict\, literal interpretation of the Bible. She also speaks with women who are former church members\, sharing accounts of religious trauma\, rigid gender roles\, and in some cases\, abuse within Christian nationalist communities. \n \nFeatured panelists\, all of whom appear in the film\, are: \n\nMargaret Bronson was raised in a theonomist cult in Southeastern Pennsylvania. She escaped at 19 and now lives with her husband and 4 children and has dedicated her life to helping others escape their cults. She is a co-founder of DeconstructionDoulas.com\, a peer support network that helps people leave high-control religious communities and supports those who have escaped.\nKatie Jennings was raised in the “shiny happy people” cult of IBLP (Institute of Basic Life Principles) in central Texas. She married young and was a trad-wife for 15 years\, homeschooling 6 kids and living as a missionary and pastor’s wife in a reformed Christian denomination overseas. Katie was forced to deconstruct when the systems that promised to protect her failed to do so\, and she has spent the last few years working hard to find the path to healing for herself and her family.\nAbi Bechard is the oldest of 10 children and a homeschool alumna. Her deconstruction from the CREC (Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches) began in earnest after abuse was discovered in her family of origin and her body and mind broke down in motherhood. Now she owns a local third space and is passionate about healing through communal embodiment.\n\nAll are survivors of evangelical/fundamentalist sects. In an evangelical/fundamentalist context\, “survivor” can mean any number of things. In this context\, we use the word “survivor” to refer to anyone who has left a religious/spiritual context in which they experienced spiritual\, emotional\, sexual\, psychological\, and/or corporal abuse. Many fundamentalist sects\, especially\, teach corporal punishment and complementarianism (ie strict gender roles that includes male supremacy/control) as a spiritual mandate. These teachings often lead to domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence. Paired with a high-control and deeply authoritarian church leadership structure\, these teachings are particularly dangerous and often ignored completely within fundamentalist and evangelical Christian traditions. LifeWay Research — a leading evangelical research firm measuring needs in the church and culture — in its own 2014 study found 74% of pastors underestimate DV in their congregations\, 42% rarely or never speak about it\, and 62% provide couples counseling to DV victims – a practice DV experts consider dangerous or potentially lethal.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/the-rise-of-christian-nationalism-film-screening-and-panel-discussion-featuring-former-church-members/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films and Performances,In-person Events,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:The Life of a Poet Featuring Brian Gilmore\, author of No More Worlds to Conquer: The Black Poet in Washington\, DC in Conversation with Poet/Editor Kyle Dargan
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereA history of Black poets in Washington\, DC\, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourse \nThe discussion will feature poet Teri Ellen Cross Davis\, Folger Poetry Manager and eminent DC Poet\, Karl Carter \nWashington\, DC\, has long been home to a dynamic and vibrant African American literary community\, despite often being overshadowed by the literary worlds of New York and Chicago. In No More Worlds to Conquer\, the local poet Brian Gilmore uncovers the buried legacy of Black poets in Washington. He traces the literary life and politics of Black poets in the nation’s capital since Paul Laurence Dunbar\, showing how well-known American poets\, such as Sterling Brown and Jean Toomer\, were mentored in DC by poets like May Miller and Georgia Douglas Johnson and making the case for the city as a center of American literature. \nGilmore draws on meticulous research\, personal interviews\, and his own deep knowledge of the local literary community to connect generations of writers and document a poetic community that transcends Washington. He reveals the intricate intersections\, networks\, and influences that have shaped the city’s poets and how they have influenced American poetry for a century. \nMore than a historical account\, No More Worlds to Conquer is a personal exploration that bridges the past and the present. Gilmore\, who was born and raised in DC\, illuminates this history and reflects on his own place in its literary tradition. This multigenerational account will resonate with poetry enthusiasts\, local DC scholars\, and anyone interested in the rich traditions of African American literature. \n\nKyle Dargan is the author of the poetry collection Anagnorisis (TriQuarterly/Northwestern UP\, 2018)\, which was awarded the 2019 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and longlisted for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His four previous collections\, Honest Engine (2015)\, Logorrhea Dementia (2010)\, Bouquet of Hungers (2007) and The Listening (2003)–were all published by the University of Georgia Press. For his work\, he has received the Cave Canem Poetry Prize\, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\, and grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. His books have also been finalists for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Eric Hoffer Awards Grand Prize. Dargan has partnered with the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities to produce poetry programming at the White House and Library of Congress. He’s worked with and supports a number of youth writing organizations\, such as 826DC\, Writopia Lab\, Young Writers Workshop and the Dodge Poetry high schools program. He is currently an Associate Professor of literature and Asst. Director of creative writing at American University\, as well as the founder and editor of POST NO ILLS magazine. He also works as a Managing Editor for Janelle Monae’s creative company\, Wondaland. Originally from Newark\, New Jersey\, Dargan is a graduate of Saint Benedict’s Prep\, The University of Virginia and Indiana University. \n\nBooks will be available for sale. A booksigning will follow the conversation.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/the-life-of-a-poet-featuring-brian-gilmore-author-of-no-more-worlds-to-conquer-the-black-poet-in-washington-dc-in-conversation-with-poet-editor-kyle-dargan/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person Events,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:Overbeck Lecture: Shakespeare Re-imagined for the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereIs Shakespeare relevant today? Do we really need a building dedicated to him and his times in the 21st century\, when we are so heavily reliant on the virtual world? The Folger Shakespeare Library\, a sleek expression of early 20th century neoclassicism\, stands as one of the most interesting\, privately held buildings on Capitol Hill. The recent re-opening of the Library after a multi-year construction project revealed a major addition which significantly expanded public spaces\, increased accessibility\, and transformed the visitor experience. \nAt the March 30 Overbeck Capitol Hill History lecture\, the illustrated presentation will provide a brief look at the building’s initial purpose and later changes\, with a major focus on the what\, how\, and why behind its most recent expansion in both building and presentation of Shakespeare’s world. \nMs. Eig\, architectural historian\, historic preservation specialist\, and CEO of EHT Traceries\, Inc.\, consulted with the Folger through the extended renovation process. Her work involved extensive documentation of the historic interior spaces\, updating the building’s landmark status\, working with architects to find sensitive ways to adapt the building\, and guiding the historic approvals process. \nThe Shakespeare Re-imagined lecture will be held Monday\, March 30\, at Hill Center\, Old Naval Hospital\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, S.E. (www.hillcenterdc.org; 202-549-4172). Admission is free\, but a reservation is requested due to limited capacity. Reservations can be made starting March 12. Seating will begin at 6:30 pm; the PowerPoint presentation will begin at 7 pm.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/overbeck-lecture-shakespeare-re-imagined-for-the-21-st-century/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person Events,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints DC: The Search for Life Beyond Earth
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereProfs and Pints DC presents: “The Search for Life Beyond Earth\,” with Måns Holmberg\, postdoctoral researcher at the Space Telescope Science Institute and part of a team of astronomers looking for chemical traces of life on distant exoplanets. \nAre we alone in the universe? \nWhile many of us have pondered that question\, astronomer Måns Holmberg of Baltimore’s Space Telescope Science Institute is seriously focused on answering it. Last year he was part of a Cambridge-led team of astronomers who generated worldwide headlines by announcing that they had discovered potential evidence of a gas produced almost exclusively by life in the James Webb Space Telescope’s data from the atmosphere of a distant world. \nDr. Holmberg will talk about how the search for life elsewhere is being conducted and what strides are being made on that front. He’ll describe what it would take to confirm signs of life on such a world\, what challenges remain\, and how the next wave of observations could ultimately tip the scales. \nRecent observations from JWST have revealed something extraordinary: the atmosphere of planet K2-18 b contains carbon-based molecules like methane and carbon dioxide and possibly even dimethyl sulfide (DMS)\, a gas that\, on Earth\, is almost exclusively produced by life. Dr. Holmberg will discuss what makes DMS a compelling (though not yet definitive) biosignature candidate. \nYou’ll emerge from the talk with a much richer appreciation of the immense possibilities out there among the stars. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later.) \nGet your tickets today!
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/profs-pints-dc-the-search-for-life-beyond-earth/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Nation at Peace with Itself: The Enduring Legacy of John Lewis
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereA Conversation Featuring John Lewis’s Longtime Director of Communications\, Brenda Jones\, Playwright\, Psalmayene 24\, and Historian\, George Derek Musgrove \nPresented in partnership with Mosaic Theatre Company and their production of Young John Lewis: Prodigy of Protest\nby Mosaic’s Playwright in-in-Residence\, Psalmayene 24 \n \nLearn More Here: https://mosaictheater.org/young-john-lewis \nIt’s time to make some good trouble. Join us for a conversation honoring the legacy of former Congressman and Civil Rights icon\, John Lewis. Psalmayene 24’s new musical\, Young John Lewis\, honors the legendary “Conscience of Congress.” \nBrenda Jones is the former Senior Presidential Speechwriter in the Executive Office of the President of the United States for President Joseph Biden\, the first African American woman to ever hold that title. President Biden also appointed her to serve as a Senior Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services during his administration. Before her appointment to the White House\, she was an award-winning political communicator\, speechwriter and author who worked in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington\, DC for nearly 16 years. She was the primary speechwriter and lead communications strategist for the late Rep. John Lewis and was dubbed “the John Lewis whisperer” by Roll Call magazine. In 2015\, she was named “One of the 20 Most Powerful Women Staffers on Capitol Hill” by National Journal magazine. In 2012\, she won an NAACP Image Award for her book collaboration with Lewis called Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change\, which hit The New York Times Bestseller list in 2020. She is also a first-place winner of the Theodore C. Sorenson Speechwriting Awards and the co-author of a four-book series on political women called Queens of the Resistance about the lives of Speaker Nancy Pelosi\, Chairwoman Maxine Waters\, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Today\, she is a contributing writer for The Contrarian and the founder and president of The John Lewis Institute of Peace\, an American domestic peace organization. She holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government\, where she was a Gertrude Manning Fellow. She has a Masters in Journalism from the Alfred Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia University\, and a BA from Indiana University’s School of Journalism\, as well as a certificate in environmental public policy from the University of Cambridge. \n  \n\nPsalmayene 24 is an award-winning playwright\, director\, and actor. He is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Mosaic Theater Company. Playwriting credits include Young John Lewis (book & lyrics) at Theatrical Outfit; Monumental Travesties\, Dear Mapel\, and Les Deux Noirs at Mosaic Theater Company; Out of the Vineyard at Joe’s Movement Emporium; and Cinderella: The Remix at Imagination Stage. Directing credits include Tempestuous Elements at Arena Stage; Metamorphoses (Helen Hayes Award\, Outstanding Direction of a Play) at Folger Theatre; The Colored Museum\, Good Bones\, Flow\, and Pass Over at Studio Theatre; Necessary Sacrifices: A Radio Play at Ford’s Theatre; Native Son at Mosaic Theater Company; and Word Becomes Flesh (Helen Hayes Award\, Outstanding Direction of a Play) at Theater Alliance. Acting credits include Dear Mapel at Mosaic Theater Company\, Ruined at Arena Stage\, and HBO’s The Wire. Psalm\, as his colleagues call him\, is the writer/director/producer of the short musical film The Freewheelin’Insurgents presented by Arena Stage. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild\, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society\, and Actors’ Equity Association. On Instagram: @psalmayene24. \n  \n\nGeorge Derek Musgrove\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University of Maryland\, Baltimore County. He is the author of Rumor\, Repression\, and Racial Politics: How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America (U. of Georgia\, 2012) and co-author\, with Chris Myers Asch\, of Chocolate City\, A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital (UNC\, 2017). In 2021\, he tried his hand at digital humanities\, releasing blackpowerindc.umbc.edu \, a web-based map covering thirty years of Black Power activism in the nation’s capital. His work has appeared in the Washington Post\, National Public Radio\, the New York Times and The Root. He is currently working on a book project tentatively titled “We must take to the streets again”: The Movement Resurgence in Conservative America\, which explores the burst of black activism that rose in opposition to the urban crisis and the conservative retrenchment in the 1980s and 90s. He earned his Ph.D. from New York University in 2005 and now lives with his wife and two sons in Washington\, D.C.
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SUMMARY:Screening of Documentary Film The Last Battlefront: Quest for the Vote in DC - Featuring a Panel Discussion with filmmaker Anna Reid Jhirad.
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HerePresented in partnership with FREE DC and Women in Film & Video \n\n\nThis one-hour documentary is the first historical film on the right for self-government in Washington\, D.C. told through the lives and voices of its citizens. This is a non-partisan film with conflicting points of view which premiered on PBS. \nWashington\, D.C. is one of the only capitals in the world where its citizens have no representation in the national legislature and where Congress and federal authorities routinely intrude on the local government of the District. The film looks at four turning points in the history of Washington\, D.C. to understand how this happened and the struggles of D.C. residents to restore their basic rights of self-government that other Americans enjoy. \nFilmmaker Anna Reid Jhirad\, founder of Marigold Productions\, LLC\, is a deeply experienced and award-winning filmmaker who has worked for years as a writer and producer on documentary programs that landed on PBS\, in museums\, IMAX cinemas\, and in independent markets. She is now directing a series of films. She was able to work with major producers–Henry Hampton in Boston; Charles and Grace Guggenheim in Washington\, D.C.; PBS executives such as Tamara Robinson at WETA and WNET; and African American directors such as Dante James. The programs won significant awards among them Emmys\, Cine Golden Eagles\, the Dupont Columbia Award\, and an Academy Award Nomination\, as well as awards from film festivals (Pan African Film Directors’ Award\, Black Maria Film Festival\, Philadelphia Women’s Film Festival).  \nA key thread running through her films is their focus on history. In trying to understand the racial violence in Boston during the 1970s\, she launched her own earliest films at WGBH but also worked with Blackside Inc\, on Eyes on the Prize. In Washington\, D.C.\, she was lead writer for Power to Heal\, a story about the racial integration of hospitals under Lyndon Johnson\, which appeared on PBS nationally. She helped develop museum exhibitions with Margo Taft Stever\, featuring newly discovered photographs of William Howard Taft’s 1905 Mission to Asia. Now with The Last Battlefront: Quest for the Vote in Washington\, D.C.\, she has found\, again\, that history has a way of broadening our understanding of a difficult political dilemma\, D.C.’s long struggle for basic rights of self-government\, democracy\, and representation in Congress. At a time of national struggles over voting rights\, these little-known stories offer insights that should help reframe the fight. She is a member of the Writers Guild East. \nWatch the trailer here. \nPost-screening panel to include: \n\n\nMaddie Caldis – Moderator & Event coordinator (member of WIFV and FDC)\nAnna Reid Jhirad – Filmmaker\nAnkit Jain – DC Shadow Senator & Voting Rights attorney\nErika Turner – Free DC Training/Programs Coordinator\nAbbie Nelson – Representative from Reeb Voting Rights Project
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/screening-of-documentary-film-the-last-battlefront-quest-for-the-vote-in-dc-featuring-a-panel-discussion-with-filmmaker-anna-reid-jhirad/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films and Performances,In-person Events,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:At Issue: Immigration. President Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda: Its Consequences and Implications featuring Dara Lind and Julia Preston
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereHill Center launched its new public affairs discussion series\, At Issue in 2025. The series examines the many critical issues we are faced with today. \nDara Lind is a Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council\, where she works to help the public better understand immigration policy with written resources\, public engagement\, and guidance of colleagues’ efforts to ensure the Council’s experts have the greatest possible impact. Before joining the Council\, she was one of the most trusted and respected immigration reporters in the country\, first at Vox (where she also co-hosted the policy podcast The Weeds) and then at ProPublica. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times\, the American Prospect\, Democracy\, Bloomberg BusinessWeek\, and Vanity Fair. \nJulia Preston is a journalist focusing on immigration. From 2017 through 2024\, she was a Contributing Writer at The Marshall Project\, a non-profit journalism organization reporting on criminal justice and immigration. Before joining The Marshall Project\, she worked for 21 years at The New York Times. She was the national correspondent covering immigration from 2006 through 2016\, and a foreign correspondent in Mexico from 1995 through 2001\, among other assignments. She is a 2020 winner of an Online Journalism Award for Explanatory Reporting\, for a Marshall Project series on myths about immigration and crime. She won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on international affairs\, for a series by four New York Times reporters on drug corruption in Mexico. She was awarded the 1997 Maria Moors Cabot Prize for distinguished coverage of Latin America. She is the author\, with Samuel Dillon\, of Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy\, 2004\, which recounts Mexico’s transformation from an authoritarian state into a struggling democracy. She is currently working on a book and audio project telling the story of the movement of young undocumented immigrants\, known as Dreamers\, and the resistance they pioneered in an earlier period of mass deportations.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/at-issue-immigration-president-trumps-mass-deportation-agenda-its-consequences-and-implications-featuring-dara-lind-and-julia-preston/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person Events,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:Natan Last\, The New Yorker Crossword Contributor\, discusses his new book\, Across the Universe\, in conversation with writer Stefan Fatsis
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereCalling all Crossword\, Spelling Bee\, and Wordle Fans! \nIf you are ever a little nosey and glance at the phone screen of the person sitting next to you on the train\, or in a café\, or in line at a store\, there is a pretty good chance that you will see them playing Wordle\, Spelling Bee\, Connections\, or solving the NYT Mini Crossword. We live in the time of game mania\, with crosswords being the ultimate champion. After a huge boom in popularity during the Covid-19 lockdown\, 36 million Americans now solve crosswords once a week or more\, and nearly 23 million solve them daily. Yet\, as longtime New Yorker crossword contributor Natan Last will tell you\, the seemingly apolitical puzzle has never been more controversial or more interesting. \nIn ACROSS THE UNIVERSE\, Natan demonstrates how the puzzle and its most popular makers like the New York Times — still the gold standard for word games — have in recent years been challenged for the way they prioritize certain cultures and perspectives as either the norm or obscure. At the same time\, the crossword has never been more democratic. A larger\, younger\, more tech-savvy\, and solidaristic group of people have fallen in love with puzzle solving\, ushering in a more inclusive rise to the kinds of people constructing them\, challenging the very idea of them and\, in fact\, what “normal” actually is. \nNatan was born deaf in his left ear and learned how to lip read to piece together words or parts of sentences he might have missed in conversation which was where his love for words and language began. He soon started solving crosswords in the back of class\, moving on quickly to writing them himself. At 16\, he got a Sunday puzzle accepted in the New York Times\, making him the youngest person ever at the time to do so. After high school\, Natan interned with famed New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz and now writes bimonthly crosswords for the New Yorker. \nNatan Last is a writer and immigration policy advocate. He writes bimonthly crosswords for The New Yorker. His essays\, poetry\, and academic research appear in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Drift\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Hyperallergic\, Narrative\, and elsewhere. He has worked for the UN\, the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project\, the International Rescue Committee\, and as an advisor to the federal government on refugee resettlement. He lives in his native Brooklyn. \n  \nNatan Last Photo Credit: Saam Aghevli \n  \nStefan Fatsis is the author of Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary\, published in October by Grove Atlantic\, and three other books: the New YorkTimes bestseller Word Freak\, about the world of competitive Scrabble; A Few Seconds of Panic\, about life in the NFL; and Wild and Outside\, about minor league baseball. In four decades as a journalist\, Fatsis has written and talked for Slate\, The Wall Street Journal\, NPR\, The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, ESPN\, Sports Illustrated\, and many other outlets. He lives in Washington\, D.C. \nStefan Fastis Photo Credit: Cindy Fatsis \n  \nBooks will be available for sale. A book signing will follow the conversation. \nDay-of tickets\, if available\, will be sold for $15
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/natan-last-the-new-yorker-crossword-contributor-discusses-his-new-book-across-the-universe-in-conversation-with-with-writer-stefan-fatsis/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person Events,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:Talk of the Hill with Bill Press Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Rick Atkinson
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereVeteran journalist Bill Press sits down for an in-depth conversation with historian Rick Atkinson about his new book THE FATE OF THE DAY: The War for America: Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston\, 1777-1780 \nAtkinson played key roles in Ken Burns’ new documentary series\, The American Revolution: An Intimate History\,  serving as a principal advisor and on-camera interviewee. See video below. \nIt requires exceptional skill to bring new depth and breadth of knowledge to well-studied history—let alone\nto do so in a vivid\, sweeping narrative that captivates readers. Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and #1 New York Times bestselling author Rick Atkinson is among a select few who can claim such abilities\, earning him the distinction of being one of our modern era’s preeminent historians. Now\, coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the beginning of America’s war for independence\, Crown Publishing has released THE FATE OF THE DAY: The War for America\, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston\, 1777-1780\, the second volume of the landmark Revolution Trilogy. \nA winner of Pulitzer Prizes for history and journalism\, Rick Atkinson has produced a remarkable oeuvre of bestselling history that includes the Liberation Trilogy (the first volume\, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa\, 1942–1943\, received the Pulitzer in History)\, The Long Gray Line\, Crusade\, In the Company of Soldiers\, and\, most recently\, The British Are Coming\, the critically acclaimed first volume of his eagerly anticipated Revolution Trilogy. A multi-week New York Times bestseller\, The British Are Coming won the George Washington Prize (awarded by Mount Vernon and its partners)\, the New-York Historical Society’s Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize\, the Daughters of the American Revolution Excellence in American History Book Award\, and the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award. \nBill Press began his career as a political insider and media commentator on KABC-TV and KCOP-TV\, both in Los Angeles. Over the years\, he has received numerous awards for his work\, including four Emmys and a Golden Mike Award. He also served as aide to California Governor Jerry Brown and was Chair of the California Democratic Party from 1993 to 1996. \nThe former co-host of MSNBC’s Buchanan and Press\, CNN’s Crossfire and The Spin Room\, Press has built a national reputation on thought-provoking and humorous insights from the left side of the political aisle. Press is the author of ten books and is the host of the twice-weekly “The Bill Press Pod” – available on Google\, Apple\, Spotify\, or Tune-In. He’s a member of the White House press corps. He also writes a weekly column for The Hill and a weekly syndicated newspaper column distributed by Tribune Media Services. \n \nBooks will be available for sale and a book signing will follow the conversation. \nDay-of tickets\, if available\, will be sold for $15
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/talk-of-the-hill-with-bill-press-featuring-pulitzer-prize-winning-author-rick-atkinson/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person Events,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:Whiting Writers' Award-Winner Clifford Thompson discusses his new book Jazz June in conversation with iconic DC writer E. Ethelbert Miller
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register Here\n“Clifford Thompson has skillfully captured in words a distinct era of American history\, the specific feel over time of two major cities (Washington and New York); an intimate glimpse of the complexity of race and masculinity; and the small details of family\, love\, ambition\, fear\, fatherhood\, and aging that make up a life. It is a charming\, quiet but powerful\, well-crafted collection.” \n—Dinty W. Moore\, author of Between Panic and Desire \n\nJazz June dives into the deeper representative moments of life—the moments of wonder\, hope\, fear\, uncertainty\, humor\, love\, and epiphany—that make up human experience. Through his reflections on literature\, music\, and film\, Thompson\, a Black American whose life is informed but not defined by race\, embraces Black culture while remaining defiantly himself. \n\n\nClifford Thompson is a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award for nonfiction whose essays and reviews have appeared in the Washington Post\, the Wall Street Journal\, Best American Essays\, Times Literary Supplement\, the 2024 Pushcart Prize Anthology\, and more. His books include What It Is: Race\, Family\, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues\, which Time magazine called one of the “most anticipated” books of the season\, and the graphic novel Big Man and the Little Men\, which he wrote and illustrated. Thompson teaches creative nonfiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. A painter\, he is a member of Blue Mountain Gallery in New York City. \nE. Ethelbert Miller is a literary activist and author of two memoirs and several poetry collections. He was given a 2020 congressional award from Congressman Jamie Raskin in recognition of his literary activism\, awarded the 2022 Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement Award by the Peace and Justice Studies Association\, and named a 2023 Grammy Nominee Finalist for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album. In 2024 Miller was awarded the Furious Flower Lifetime Achievement Award. \nBooks will be available for sale. A book signing will follow the conversation. \n\nDay-of tickets\, if available\, will be sold for $15
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/whiting-writers-award-winner-clifford-thompson-discusses-his-new-book-jazz-june-in-conversation-with-iconic-dc-writer-e-ethelbert-miller/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person Events,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:Talk of the Hill with Bill Press Featuring Journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereVeteran journalist Bill Press sits down for an in-depth conversation with New York Times chief White House correspondent\, Peter Baker and The New Yorker staff writer\, Susan Glasser\, for a candid assessment of President Trump’s first year in office as well as breaking  news of the day. Baker and Glasser are the authors of the bestselling The Divider: Trump in the White House\, 2017-2021.\n\nPeter Baker covers the president and his administration\, which results in stories on a wide variety of domestic\, economic\, political\, national security and foreign policy issues.  Baker has covered the White House for a long time\, and often focuses on analytical pieces attempting to place what is happening in a larger context and historical framework. Baker joined The Times in 2008 after 20 years at The Washington Post and has covered the White House over the course of the past six presidencies\, starting in 1996 with Bill Clinton and continuing through George W. Bush\, Barack Obama\, Donald J. Trump\, Joseph R. Biden Jr. and now Mr. Trump again. He is also a political analyst for MSNBC. \nSusan B. Glasser\, a staff writer at The New Yorker based in Washington\, D.C.\, writes a weekly column on life in Washington and is a host of the Political Scene podcast. Glasser has served as the top editor of several Washington publications\, including Politico\, where she founded the award-winning Politico Magazine\, and Foreign Policy\, which won three National Magazine Awards\, among other honors\, during her tenure as editor-in-chief. Before that\, she worked for a decade at the Washington Post\, where she was the editor of Outlook and national news. She also oversaw coverage of the impeachment of Bill Clinton\, served as a reporter covering the intersection of money and politics\, spent four years as the Post’s Moscow co-bureau chief\, and covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She started her journalism career in the nineteen-eighties\, as an intern at the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call\, which she later edited. \nBill Press began his career as a political insider and media commentator on KABC-TV and KCOP-TV\, both in Los Angeles. Over the years\, he has received numerous awards for his work\, including four Emmys and a Golden Mike Award. He also served as aide to California Governor Jerry Brown and was Chair of the California Democratic Party from 1993 to 1996. \nThe former co-host of MSNBC’s Buchanan and Press\, CNN’s Crossfire and The Spin Room\, Press has built a national reputation on thought-provoking and humorous insights from the left side of the political aisle. Press is the author of ten books and is the host of the twice-weekly “The Bill Press Pod” – available on Google\, Apple\, Spotify\, or Tune-In. He’s a member of the White House press corps. He also writes a weekly column for The Hill and a weekly syndicated newspaper column distributed by Tribune Media Services. \nEast City Bookshop will have books for sale and signing.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/talk-of-the-hill-with-bill-press-featuring-journalists-peter-baker-and-susan-glasser/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person Events,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:Overbeck Lecture: Evolution of DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services - Through the Decades Focusing on Capitol Hill Fires
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereThe Civil War marks the turn of DC’s firefighting efforts from volunteer firefighting brigades to a city-wide department of trained and paid firefighters. Amy Mauro\, Esq.\, executive director of the DC Fire & Emergency Medical Services Foundation\, will highlight decades of improvements and innovations within the “Nation’s Fire Department” at the Overbeck Capitol Hill history lecture held December 8\, 7 pm\, at Hill Center\, Old Naval Hospital. An overview of the department’s history\, including the integration of African-Americans and women\, as well as the evolution of EMS in DC\, will feature major Capitol Hill fires and incidents as recorded by stories\, photos\, oral histories and videos. Joining Ms. Mauro for the Q & A session will be Vito Maggiolo\, the department’s public information officer and long-time fire buff. \nAmy Mauro has spent the majority of her career working in public safety policy and administrative roles in federal agencies and the DC government\, including eight years as Chief of Staff at the DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department. In 2023 Ms. Mauro left government service to revive the DC Fire & EMS Foundation\, whose mission is to aid the F&EMS Department by supporting its members’ training\, wellness and recognition\, equipment and facilities\, and by educating the community about the Department’s life-saving mission. She grew up on Capitol Hill and now lives on the Hill with her husband and two daughters. \nThe 7 pm lecture on Fire and Emergency Medical Services will be held at Hill Center\, Old Naval Hospital\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE (www.hillcenter.org; 202-549-4172); on Monday\, December 8. Admission is free but a reservation is requested due to limited capacity. Reservations can be made starting November 24. Seating will begin at 6:30 pm; the power point presentation will begin at 7 pm.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/overbeck-lecture-evolution-of-dc-fire-and-emergency-medical-services-through-the-decades-focusing-on-capitol-hill-fires/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person Events,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:$7.50 Overflow Seating - Ask Tom Sietsema (almost) Anything. Sietsema Dishes on the DC Dining Scene with Food Maven Carla Hall
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereDue to overwhelming demand we have added an overflow room to accommodate extra guests. A live video feed will be screened on our state of the art AV system. Tickets are $7.50. Seating is limited. \nStoried Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema reflects on the past 25 years wining and dining his way through the DMV and beyond\, in conversation with Chef and TV host Carla Hall. \nTom Sietsema was the food critic for The Washington Post\, for almost 26 years.  He recently announced his retirement — no more dining out 10 meals a week. \nBefore his tenure at The Post\, where he won various honors including a 2016 James Beard Award\, Sietsema wrote for Microsoft (yep\, as a critic)\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and publications nationwide. His byline has appeared in Gourmet\, GQ\, Travel and Leisure\, and elsewhere. \n \nCarla Hall first won over audiences when she competed on Bravo’s “Top Chef” and “Top Chef: All Stars” and shared her philosophy to always cook with love.  She is atrained chef who has worked in several professional restaurant kitchens in and around the Washington\, D.C. area and believes food connects us all\, a belief she strives to convey through her work\, her cooking\, and in her daily interactions with others.   \nCarla spent 7 years co-hosting ABC’s Emmy award winning\, popular lifestyle series “The Chew”\, and is currently featured as the Host of “Chasing Flavors” on Max\, and on the Food Network as a judge on competition shows such as “Harry Potter: The Wizards of Baking” and the “Summer\, Holiday and Halloween Baking Championships”.  Her latest cookbook\, Carla Hall’s Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration\, was published in 2018\, landing on annual “Best Cookbook” lists across the country and receiving an NAACP Image Awards nomination. Carla is also currently being honored by Les Dames d’Escoffier as Grande Dame\, a lifetime achievement award and honorary title given to members in recognition of extraordinary contributions within the fields of food\, beverage and hospitality. She has published a children’s book\, Carla and the Christmas Cornbread (2021)\, a heartwarming tale loosely based on Hall’s childhood growing up in Nashville\, TN and her second children’s book Carla and the Tin Can Cake will be available October 2025. \n(Tom Sietsema photo credit: Deb Lindsey)
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/7-50-overflow-seating-ask-tom-sietsema-almost-anything-sietsema-dishes-on-the-dc-dining-scene-with-food-maven-carla-hall/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cooking Classes & Tastings,In-person Events,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:Ask Tom Sietsema (almost) Anything Live & in Person. Sietsema Dishes on the DC Dining Scene with Food Maven Carla Hall
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereStoried Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema reflects on the past 25 years wining and dining his way through the DMV and beyond\, in conversation with Chef and TV host Carla Hall. \nTom Sietsema was the food critic for The Washington Post\, for almost 26 years.  He recently announced his retirement — no more dining out 10 meals a week. \nBefore his tenure at The Post\, where he won various honors including a 2016 James Beard Award\, Sietsema wrote for Microsoft (yep\, as a critic)\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and publications nationwide. His byline has appeared in Gourmet\, GQ\, Travel and Leisure\, and elsewhere. \n \nCarla Hall first won over audiences when she competed on Bravo’s “Top Chef” and “Top Chef: All Stars” and shared her philosophy to always cook with love.  She is a trained chef who has worked in several professional restaurant kitchens in and around the Washington\, D.C. area and believes food connects us all\, a belief she strives to convey through her work\, her cooking\, and in her daily interactions with others.   \nCarla spent 7 years co-hosting ABC’s Emmy award winning\, popular lifestyle series “The Chew”\, and is currently featured as the Host of “Chasing Flavors” on Max\, and on the Food Network as a judge on competition shows such as “Harry Potter: The Wizards of Baking” and the “Summer\, Holiday and Halloween Baking Championships”.  Her latest cookbook\, Carla Hall’s Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration\, was published in 2018\, landing on annual “Best Cookbook” lists across the country and receiving an NAACP Image Awards nomination. Carla is also currently being honored by Les Dames d’Escoffier as a Grande Dame\, a lifetime achievement award and honorary title given to members in recognition of extraordinary contributions within the fields of food\, beverage and hospitality. She has published a children’s book\, Carla and the Christmas Cornbread (2021)\, a heartwarming tale loosely based on Hall’s childhood growing up in Nashville\, TN and her second children’s book Carla and the Tin Can Cake will be available October 2025. \n(Tom Sietsema photo credit: Deb Lindsey)
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/ask-tom-sietsema-almost-anything-live-in-person-sietsema-dishes-on-the-dc-dining-scene-with-food-mavens-carla-hall-bonnie-benwick/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cooking Classes & Tastings,In-person Events,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:Overbeck Lecture: Kim Hoagland\, "Comfort and Conveniences in Capitol Hill Row Houses"
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereHeating\, lighting\, and plumbing provide comfort and convenience to the modern home. How did the historic row houses of Capitol Hill accommodate these modern interventions? On Monday\, November 10\, at 7 pm\, during the Overbeck History Lecture at Hill Center\, Old Naval Hospital\, architectural historian and author Alison K. (Kim) Hoagland will highlight how people’s houses and lives changed in the decades after the Civil War. As fireplaces evolved into central heating\, lamps became electrified\, and outdoor privies moved indoors\, new designs of row houses were called for\, influenced by changing ideas about sanitation and the germ theory. While these conveniences became perceived as necessities\, they were not distributed evenly across economic class and geography. This examination of heating\, lighting\, and plumbing will look at the broader ideas concerning public health as well as the specifics of introducing new facilities into row houses with an emphasis on Capitol Hill. \nAlison K. (Kim) Hoagland is the author of The Row House in Washington\, DC: A History (University of Virginia Press\, 2023)\, recently released in paperback\, as well as The Bathroom: A Social History of Cleanliness and the Body (Greenwood Press\, 2018). Ms. Hoagland first moved to Capitol Hill in 1977 and has lived here for a majority of the years since then. She was the Senior Architectural Historian for the Historic American Buildings Survey of the National Park Service\, and then taught History and Historic Preservation at Michigan Technological University\, where she is now Professor Emerita. She has written four other books on various aspects of the\nvernacular architecture of the U.S. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe November 10 Capitol Hill History lecture will be held at Hill Center\, Old Naval Hospital\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, (202-549-4172)\, beginning at 7 pm. Admission is free but a reservation is requested due to limited capacity. Reservations can be made starting October 27. Seating will begin at 6:30 pm; the power point presentation will begin at 7 pm.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/overbeck-lecture-kim-hoagland-comfort-and-conveniences-in-capitol-hill-row-houses/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person Events,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Fifty Years of Capitol Hill Poetry
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereThe Capitol Hill Poetry Group began on the Hill in 1975\, when a group of poets came together to share and critique their work. To mark our 50th Anniversary\, we are publishing The Other Side of the Hill—1975-2025\, the 3rd anthology of our poems\, and invite you to join us for readings\, refreshments\, and celebration on Sunday\, November 2 at 5PM. \nThe Capitol Hill Poetry Group formed in 1975\, when Sally Crowell\, of CHAW\, put Jean Nordhaus (author of 8 volumes of poetry\, but at the time a fledgling poet) in contact with poet and neighbor Shirley Cochrane. With two others\, they began meeting weekly in their homes to share and critique their work. The group\, with changes in membership and\, since the pandemic\, in venue\, has met regularly since 1975. \nIndividual members have published widely in poetry journals and authored numerous books. Current members include Jean Nordhaus\, a former director of the poetry programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library\, Patricia Gray\, who for many years ran the Poet Laureate’s office at the Library of Congress\, Mary Ann Larkin\, Patric Pepper\, and Greg McBride\, editor of the respected online poetry journal\, Innisfree. Featuring readings by Patricia Gray\, Charise Hogue\, Mary Ann Larkin\, Greg McBride\, Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely\, Jean Nordhaus\, Patric Pepper\, Noel Salinger\, Rosemary Winslow and Anne Harding Woodworth.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/celebrating-fifty-years-of-capitol-hill-poetry/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person Events,Languages & Humanities,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:Readin' & Rockin' Featuring GRAMMY-Nominated Musician Paul Burch in Conversation with former NPR host Melissa Block.
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereBurch Discusses his new Novel Meridian Rising about Country Music Legend Jimmie Rodgers and Sings a Few Songs Too! \n“Jimmie Rodgers comes a-yodelin’ out of Paul Burch’s novel as if he were with us today. This is a tour de force of musical imagination.”\n—Roy Blount Jr.\, author of Save Room for Pie \n“Paul Burch has made up the truth of Jimmie Rodgers’s life better than any mere ‘facts’ could ever convey—even though you’d have to be in possession of a million biographical facts to pull off this kind of vernacular Huck Finn sleight-of-hand prose magic. I suspect the sleight-of-hand has something to do with the fact that Burch is a musician himself. He played his tune in the key of rollicky\, mixed in with all the sadness. From start to end\, I didn’t hear a false note on the page. From start to end\, this felt like such an authentic American story\, in sore need of a new telling.”\n—Paul Hendrickson\, author of Hemingway’s Boat \nKnown for “Blue Yodel (T for Texas)\,” “Waiting for a Train\,” and “In the Jailhouse Now\,” Jimmie Rodgers’s impact on American music is incalculable. Paul Burch’s bio-fictional tale of the short and poignant life of the “Father of Country Music” includes an imagined first-person memoir\, accompanied by spirited\, hilarious\, and often conflicting recollections of Jimmie’s family and music colleagues\, along with period black-and-white illustrations. \nBorn in 1897 in Meridian\, Mississippi\, Rodgers remains the only artist voted into the Rock & Roll\, Country\, Blues\, and Songwriters Halls of Fame. Generations of fans from B. B. King and Johnny Cash to George Harrison and Dolly Parton recall a Rodgers record as the first music played in their home. But his fame extended far beyond America to Africa\, Ireland\, England\, Australia\, and Russia. His disciples include Robert Johnson\, Bob Dylan\, John Prine\, the Clash’s Joe Strummer\, Jack White\, and anyone over the last century who has picked up a guitar to sing about life and the world around it. \nMeridian Rising is at once an immersive tale and a brilliant literary puzzle\, deftly blending history and fiction to create a vibrant alternative life-tale of the entertainer Howling Wolf called “my man that I really dug.” Written with the knowledge and sensitivity of a touring musician who has traveled many of the same roads and stages\, Meridian Rising engages the reader in a quest for truth while confronting the deceptions that live within our deepest relationships. \nPaul Burch\, a native of Washington\, D.C.\, is a writer\, composer\, and recording artist. As a musician\, Burch put out an album in 2016 about Rodgers that received widespread acclaim. Afterwards\, he moved on to other projects\, but Jimmie’s story had its hooks in him\, revealing itself not as another album but in Jimmie’s voice in prose. The result is a rollicking story of the kind of figure that has become a cultural archetype as well as a hero to some of the best artists of our time: Bob Dylan\, Howling Wolf\, Dolly Parton\, Jack White—the list goes on.  Burch has produced numerous albums with his band the WPA Ballclub\, including Last of My Kind\, a companion to Tony Earley’s best-selling novel Jim the Boy\, as well as a musical version of Meridian Rising. In addition\, Burch has produced recordings with Mark Knopfler\, Ralph Stanley\, Lambchop\, and Charlie Louvin\, which received a GRAMMY nomination. Learn more at paulburch.com. \nMelissa Block is an American radio host and journalist. She co-hosted NPR‘s All Things Considered news program from 2003 until August 14\, 2015. In August 2015 she became a Special Correspondent for NPR\, responsible for detailed profiles of newsworthy figures\, and long-form stories and series on topical issues.  She retired from NPR in 2023. Block began her NPR career in 1985 as an editorial assistant for All Things Considered and rose to become the show’s senior producer. From 1994 to 2002\, she was a New York reporter and correspondent for NPR. Her reporting after the September 11 attacks helped earn NPR a Peabody Award in 2001. \nIn 2008\, Block was recording an interview in Chengdu\, China\, when the area was struck by a 7.9 magnitude earthquake. Her earthquake coverage earned her a Peabody Award\, a duPont-Columbia Award\, a National Headliner Award\, and the Society of Professional Journalists‘ Sigma Delta Chi Award. Her  reporting from Kosovo in 1999 for NPR won an Overseas Press Club Award. \n 
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/grammy-nominated-musician-composer-record-producer-paul-burch-discusses-his-new-novel-meridian-rising-about-country-legend-jimmie-rodgers-in-conversation-with-former-npr-host-melissa-block-expec/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concerts,In-person Events,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:The Life of a Poet Featuring Acclaimed Poet Reginald Harris in Conversation with Poet/Editor Kyle Dargan
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register Here“Reginald Harris’s Autogeography is the winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize. The book has been praised for being great black poetry and great LGBT poetry\, but it’s great writing beyond category.”         – Poet\, Sean Singer \nEstablished in 2013\, The Life of a Poet is a quarterly series of in-depth literary conversations. The series offers a rare opportunity to consider a writer’s entire career and explore the major events that have shaped their work. Readings from that work are interspersed throughout the conversation. Originally moderated by Washington Post book critic Ron Charles\, the series is now helmed by noted poet and editor Kyle Dargan. Over the years featured poets have included Terrance Hayes\, Elizabeth Alexander\, Marie Howe\, Ada Limon\, Marilyn Chin\, Adrian Matejka\, Janine Joseph\, and Carl Phillips among many others. \nReginald Harris is a poet\, writer\, and literary consultant. A Cave Canem Fellow born in Annapolis\, Maryland\, and raised in Baltimore\, his first book\, 10 Tongues\, was finalist for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize\, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year\, and a Lambda Literary Award; his second collection\, Autogeography\, was a finalist for the Griot-Stadler and White Pine Press Poetry Prizes\, won the 2012 Cave Canem / Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize\, and was on lists of “Best Books of Year” in The Volta and Beltway Poetry Quarterly. A member of the National Book Critics Circle and recipient of Individual Artist Awards for poetry and fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council\, Harris’s work has appeared in numerous print and online publications\, including African-American Review\, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide\, Obsidian\, Poetry\, smartish pace\, and in the anthologies A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poems\, Of Poetry and Protest: Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin\, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South\, The Road Before Us: 100 Black Gay Poets\, and This is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets. He has served on award selection committees for the Bronx Council on the Arts\, George Mason University’s Creative Writing Department\, the “One Maryland / One Book” program\, Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest\, and the Publishing Triangle. Involved in library technology and programming for over thirty years\, from Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library to Poets House in Manhattan\, Reginald Harris currently lives in Brooklyn\, where he is a Lead Digital Navigator for the Brooklyn Public Library’s Neighborhood Tech Help service. \n  \n \nKyle Dargan is the author of the poetry collection Anagnorisis (TriQuarterly/Northwestern UP\, 2018)\, which was awarded the 2019 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize andlonglisted for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His four previous collections\, Honest Engine (2015)\, Logorrhea Dementia (2010)\, Bouquet of Hungers (2007) and The Listening (2003)–were all published by the University of Georgia Press. For his work\, he has received the Cave Canem Poetry Prize\, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\, and grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. His books have also been finalists for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Eric Hoffer Awards Grand Prize. Dargan has partnered with the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities to produce poetry programming at the White House and Library of Congress. He’s worked with and supports a number of youth writing organizations\, such as 826DC\, Writopia Lab\, Young Writers Workshop and the Dodge Poetry high schools program. He is currently an Associate Professor of literature and Asst. Director of creative writing at American University\, as well as the founder and editor of POST NO ILLS magazine. He also works as a Managing Editor for Janelle Monae’s creative company\, Wondaland. Originally from Newark\, New Jersey\, Dargan is a graduate of Saint Benedict’s Prep\, The University of Virginia and Indiana University. \nBooks will be available for sale. A booksigning will follow the conversation. \nReginald Harris Photo Credit: Nicholas Nichols
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/the-life-of-a-poet-featuring-acclaimed-poet-reginald-harris-in-conversation-with-poet-editor-kyle-dargan/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person Events,Languages & Humanities,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:Iranian Journalist Fatemeh Jamalpour discusses her new book For The Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register Here“Personally driven\, historically necessary\, and politically salient.” —Kirkus Reviews \nFatemeh Jamalpour will be in conversation with Holly Dagres\, Senior Fellow The Washington Institute \nFatemeh Jamalpour is a feminist journalist banned from working in Iran by the Ministry of Intelligence. Jamalpour has worked as a freelance reporter for outlets such as The Sunday Times\, The Paris Review and the Los Angeles Times\, and has also held positions at BBC World News in London and Shargh newspaper in Tehran. She has two master’s degrees in journalism and communication from Northwestern University and Allameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran and was a 2024-25 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. \nHolly Dagres is a senior fellow at the think tank\, The Washington Institute. She is also the curator for the popular weekly newsletter\, The Iranist\, on Substack. Holly is Iranian-American and spent her formative years in Iran. \nFor The Sun After Long Nights\, co-authored by Nilo Tabrizy\, is a moving exploration of the 2022 women-led protests in Iran\, as told through the interwoven stories of two Iranian journalists. In September 2022\, a young Kurdish woman\, Mahsa Jîna Amini\, died after being beaten by police officers who arrested her for not adhering to the Islamic Republic’s dress code. Her death galvanized thousands of Iranians – mostly women – who took to the streets in protest in one of the largest uprisings in the country in decades: the “Woman\, Life\, Freedom” movement. Despite the threat of imprisonment or death for her work as a journalist covering political unrest\, state repression\, and grassroots activism in Iran—which has led to multiple interrogation sessions and arrests—Fatemeh Jamalpour joined the throngs of people fighting to topple Iran’s religious extremist regime. Across the globe\, Nilo Tabrizy\, who emigrated from Iran with her family and was raised in Canada\, was covering the protests and state violence in Iran\, knowing that spotlighting the women on the frontlines and the systemic injustice of the Iranian government meant she would not be able to safely return to Iran in the future. Though they had met only once in person\, Nilo and Fatemeh corresponded constantly\, often through encrypted platforms in order to protect Fatemeh’s privacy and security. As the protests continued to unfold\, they shared what led them to embark on an effort to document the spirit and legacy of the movement\, and the history\, geopolitics\, and influences that led to this point. At once deeply personal and assiduously reported\, For the Sun After Long Nights offers two perspectives on what it means\, as a journalist\, to cover the stories that are closest to one’s heart—both from the frontlines and from afar. \nThe title FOR THE SUN AFTER LONG NIGHTS\, originates from the song “Baraye” by Shervin Hajipour which went viral online and became a protest anthem for the movement in 2022. Hajipour is currently serving a three year and eight-month sentence for “encouragement to protest.” His story embodies how poetry\, a pillar of Iranian culture\, has historically been used for political commentary. This memoir follows that same tradition of using art as a form of self-expression and a political vessel. \nBooks will be available for sale. A book signing will follow the discussion. \nFatemeh Jamalpour photo credit: Joan Susie
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/iranian-journalist-fatemeh-jamalpour-discusses-her-new-book-for-the-sun-after-long-nights/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
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SUMMARY:At Issue: The Politicization of the F.B.I. Featuring New York Times F.B.I. and DOJ correspondent Devlin Barrett and Former F.B.I. Agent Michael Feinberg
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereHill Center launched its new public affairs discussion series At Issue in April. The series examines the many critical issues we are faced with today. \nThe New York Times recently published an editorial board opinion titled\, “Trump’s Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe\,” in which it argues\, “Only 11 days after President Trump was inaugurated for a second term\, his administration began a purge of the F.B.I. that now threatens some of the bureau’s most important missions. His appointees ousted eight of its most experienced managers\, including the division heads overseeing national security\, cybersecurity and criminal investigations. Several had worked on prosecutions of Jan. 6 rioters or had assisted in the various investigations of Mr. Trump\, and Emil Bove\, then the acting deputy attorney general\, said they could not be trusted to carry out the president’s agenda. \nThat was just the beginning. Over the past five months\, many F.B.I. agents\, including other top managers and national security experts\, have been fired\, pressured to leave or transferred to lesser roles. Hundreds have resigned on their own\, [including Michael Feinberg]\, unwilling to follow the demands of the Trump administration. Their absence has left a vacuum in divisions that are supposed to protect the public. Mr. Trump’s playbook for the F.B.I. is plain to see. He is turning it into an enforcement agency for MAGA’s priorities.” \nAs Devlin Barrett noted in recent reporting\, “The Trump administration has taken a host of measures meant to punish his perceived enemies. He has also forced out F.B.I. agents and executives and demoted or reassigned a wide swath of senior Justice Department officials whom Mr. Trump and his top aides do not trust. In firing scores of law enforcement officials based solely on Mr. Trump’s expansive claim of executive power\, the administration has flouted longstanding civil service laws meant to ensure the public receives professional services from government agencies. Many of those fired individuals have sued\, but the cases are moving slowly through the courts.” \nMichael Feinberg\, a top deputy in the Norfolk\, Va.\, office\, had ties to a former agent whom Kash Patel\, the F.B.I. director\, identified in his book as part of the so-called deep state. The moves add to the transfers\, ousters and demotions that have rippled across the F.B.I. as Mr. Patel and Dan Bongino\, his No. 2\, promise to remake the country’s premier law enforcement agency. The wave of changes\, current and former agents say\, amount to little more than retaliation\, underscoring what they describe as the politicization of the F.B.I. as its leaders seek to mollify Mr. Trump’s supporters. \nCritics say Mr. Patel and Mr. Bongino\, who are clear about their loyalty to the president and lack the experience of their predecessors\, are simply doing what they railed about for years under the previous administration: weaponizing the bureau. In a statement addressing his decision to step down\, Mr. Feinberg denounced the agency as an organization that had begun “to decay.” \nDevlin Barrett covers the Justice Department and the F.B.I. for The New York Times\, explaining how decisions are made inside these powerful and often secretive agencies that have played an ever-growing role in American politics. Barrett joined The Times in 2024 after covering federal law enforcement for more than two decades for The New York Post\, The Associated Press\, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Barrett has covered many significant FBI-related stories\, including the Mar-a-Lago documents\, the Mueller investigation reaching into the Trump White House\, and the Jan. 6 FBI warning about extremism. \nHe is also the author of the book October Surprise: How the F.B.I. Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election\, which details the FBI’s role in the 2016 presidential election. The book recounts the enormously consequential role of the Justice Department and F.B.I. in the 2016 presidential election. Barrett was part of reporting teams that won Pulitzer Prizes in 2018 and 2022. In 2017 he was a co-finalist for both the Pulitzer for feature writing and the Pulitzer for international reporting. \nMichael Feinberg is currently a Public Service Fellow with the Lawfare Institute\, and a former Assistant Special Agent in Charge with the Federal Bureau of Investigation\, where he spent the overwhelming majority of his career combatting the People’s Republic of China’s intelligence services. During the course of his tenure with the Bureau he worked in the Los Angeles\, Washington\, and Norfolk Field Offices\, with additional time spent at FBI Headquarters. He is a recipient of the FBI’s highest recognition\, the Director’s Award for Excellence\, for his work serving as the primary architect of the investigation of Huawei Technologies\, a number of its subsidiaries\, and multiple employees. He was also nominated for the commendation two times previously\, both also focusing on East Asian matters. He was awarded numerous other Bureau honors and recognized by the Director of National Intelligence for his counterintelligence efforts on three separate occasions. Under his leadership\, numerous squads in multiple field offices successfully prosecuted Chinese intelligence officers\, their agents – including one working as a mole within the FBI – and multiple corporate entities facilitating the PRC’s intelligence operations. Toward the end of his career\, Michael spent time on counterterrorism matters\, as well. \nPrior to his service with the FBI\, he was an attorney in both private and public practice. He has a B.A. cum laude and J.D. from Brandeis University and Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law\, respectively\, and spent multiple summers at Middlebury College studying Mandarin. The opinions presented at this event are entirely his own and not that of the U.S. government.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/at-issue-the-politicization-of-the-f-b-i-featuring-new-york-times-f-b-i-and-doj-correspondent-devlin-barrett-and-former-f-b-i-agent-michael-feinberg/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Our City. Our Music. Our Writers.
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereOn September 30th at 7.00 pm\, two outstanding Smithsonian Museum curators will present and discuss their recent books and the key insights derived from archival research\, field work\, and material culture studies that increase our understanding of this quintessential American music and its global influence. \nDwandalyn R. Reece will present Musical Crossroads: Stories Behind the Objects of African American Music\, highlighting the curatorial and archival research on the vast array of musical styles and performance traditions that developed the comprehensive collections and exhibits of The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History. John Troutman will present his work on Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey: editing the unpublished manuscript of folklorist Robert Mack McCormick\, co-curating an exhibit on McCormickʻs legendary archive; and co-producing a Grammy-nominated\, Smithsonian Folkways box set from McCormick’s field recordings. \nDwandalyn R. Reece\, Ph.D.\, is Associate Director for the Humanities at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and served as the museum’s Curator of Music and Performing Arts from 2009 – 2021. She received the Smithsonian Secretary’s Research Award for curating NMAAHC’s permanent exhibition Musical Crossroads in 2017 and for her publication Musical Crossroads: Stories Behind the Objects of African American Music in 2025. She collaborates on many Smithsonian programs\, including The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap and the Smithsonian Year of Music\, and chairs the pan-institutional group\, Smithsonian Music. Reece is a board member of the American Musicological Society\, the Society for American Music\, and the Society for Ethnomusicology. \nJohn Troutman\, Ph.D.\, Head of the Division of Culture the Arts at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History\, is its award- winning Curator of Music and Musical Instruments\, project director and lead curator of its permanent exhibition “Entertainment Nation\,” and a prolific author on U.S. popular and vernacular music in the late 19th and 20th centuries.  His work on the edited volume\, Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey\, recently won a Smithsonian Secretary’s Research Award.
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LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Talk of the Hill with Bill Press Featuring Best Selling Author Lynne Olson
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereVeteran journalist Bill Press sits down for an in-depth conversation with New York Times bestselling author\, Lynne Olson \nLynne Olson is a New York Times bestselling author of ten books of history\, most of which focus on World War II. Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has called her “our era’s foremost chronicler of World War II politics and diplomacy.” Her latest book\, The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp\, was published by Random House on June 3\, 2025. It follows Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Woman Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples From Extinction\, which came out in 2023. Three of Lynne’s earlier books were immediate New York Times bestsellers\, among them Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against the Nazis and Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest\, Finest Hour. Born in Hawaii\, Lynne graduated magna cum laude from the University of Arizona. Before becoming a full-time author\, she worked as a journalist for ten years\, first with the Associated Press as a national feature writer in New York\, a foreign correspondent in AP’s Moscow bureau\, and a political reporter in Washington. She left the AP to join the Washington bureau of the Baltimore Sun\, where she covered national politics and eventually the White House. \nLynne lives in Washington\, DC with her husband\, Stanley Cloud\, with whom she co-authored two books. \nBill Press began his career as a political insider and media commentator on KABC-TV and KCOP-TV\, both in Los Angeles. Over the years\, he has received numerous awards for his work\, including four Emmys and a Golden Mike Award. He also served as aide to California Governor Jerry Brown and was Chair of the California Democratic Party from 1993 to 1996. \nThe former co-host of MSNBC’s Buchanan and Press\, CNN’s Crossfire and The Spin Room\, Press has built a national reputation on thought-provoking and humorous insights from the left side of the political aisle. Press is the author of ten books and is the host of the twice-weekly “The Bill Press Pod” – available on Google\, Apple\, Spotify\, or Tune-In. He’s a member of the White House press corps. He also writes a weekly column for The Hill and a weekly syndicated newspaper column distributed by Tribune Media Services. \nBooks will be available for sale and a book signing will follow the conversation.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/talk-of-the-hill-with-bill-press-featuring-best-selling-author-lynne-olson/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Life of a Poet Featuring Marie Howe\, Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in Conversation with Poet/Editor Kyle Dargan
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register Here“Marie Howe’s poetry is luminous\, intense\, and eloquent\, rooted in an abundant inner life. ”  \n—Stanley Kunitz\, former Poet Laureate \nEstablished in 2013\, The Life of a Poet is a quarterly series of in-depth literary conversations. The series offers a rare opportunity to consider a writer’s entire career and explore the major events that have shaped their work. Readings from that work are interspersed throughout the conversation. Originally moderated by Washington Post book critic Ron Charles\, the series is now helmed by noted poet and editor Kyle Dargan. Over the years featured poets have included Terrance Hayes\, Elizabeth Alexander\, Ada Limon\, Marilyn Chin\, Adrian Matejka\, Janine Joseph\, and Carl Phillips among many others. \nMarie Howe is the author of five volumes of poetry: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton\, 2024)\, which won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in poetry; Magdalene: Poems (W.W. Norton\, 2017); The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (W.W. Norton\, 2009); What the Living Do (1997); and The Good Thief (1988). She is also the co-editor of a book of essays\, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Poetry\, Agni\, Ploughshares\, Harvard Review\, and The Partisan Review\, among others. She has been a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and a recipient of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships\, and Stanley Kunitz selected Howe for a Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the American Academy of Poets. In 2015\, she received the Academy of American Poets Poetry Fellowship which recognizes distinguished poetic achievement. From 2012-2014\, she served as the Poet Laureate of New York State. \nKyle Dargan is the author of the poetry collection Anagnorisis (TriQuarterly/Northwestern UP\, 2018)\, which was awarded the 2019 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and longlisted for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His four previous collections\, Honest Engine (2015)\, Logorrhea Dementia (2010)\, Bouquet of Hungers (2007) and The Listening (2003)–were all published by the University of Georgia Press. For his work\, he has received the Cave Canem Poetry Prize\, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\, and grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. His books have also been finalists for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Eric Hoffer Awards Grand Prize. Dargan has partnered with the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities to produce poetry programming at the White House and Library of Congress. He’s worked with and supports a number of youth writing organizations\, such as 826DC\, Writopia Lab\, Young Writers Workshop and the Dodge Poetry high schools program. He is currently an Associate Professor of literature and Asst. Director of creative writing at American University\, as well as the founder and editor of POST NO ILLS magazine. He also works as a Managing Editor for Janelle Monae’s creative company\, Wondaland. Originally from Newark\, New Jersey\, Dargan is a graduate of Saint Benedict’s Prep\, The University of Virginia and Indiana University. \nBooks will be available for sale. A booksigning will follow the conversation.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/the-life-of-a-poet-featuring-marie-howe-winner-of-the-2025-pulitzer-prize-in-poetry-in-conversation-with-poet-editor-kyle-dargan/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Joseph Sassoon Discusses his book The SASSOONS: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire in Conversation with New York Times Writer Binyamin Appelbaum
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register Here“As engaging as Sassoon renders the intricacies of business and religion\, the book is at its best when the family’s supercharged ambitions take center stage….Rags-to-riches stories may all be the same\, but it’s the way in which a fortune is lost that’s truly compelling. Sassoon’s detailed account of the decentralization of family power and the proliferation of descendants interested in spending but not making money is well paced and supremely satisfying….Joseph Sassoon’s book isn’t just a marvelous yarn\, it’s an Ottoman ‘Our Crowd’ that gives his family its due.”—New York Times Book Review \nA spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Baghdadi Sassoons\, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade—cotton\, opium\, shipping\, banking—that reached across three continents and ultimately changed the destinies of nations. They were one of the richest families in the world for two hundred years\, from the 19th century to the 20th\, and were known as the Rothschilds of the East. \nMesopotamian in origin\, and for more than forty years the chief treasurers to the pashas of Baghdad and Basra\, they were forced to flee to Bushehr on the Persian Gulf; David Sassoon and his sons started over with nothing and beginning to trade in India in cotton and opium. \nThe Sassoons soon were building textile mills and factories\, setting up branches in shipping in China\, and expanding beyond\, to Japan\, and further west\, to Paris and London. They became members of British parliament; were knighted; and owned and edited Britain’s leading newspapers\, including The Sunday Times and The Observer. \nAnd in 1887\, the exalted dynasty of Sassoon joined forces with the banking empire of Rothschild and was soon joined by marriage\, fusing together two of the biggest Jewish commerce and banking families in the world. \nAgainst the monumental canvas of two centuries of the Ottoman Empire and the changing face of the Far East\, across Europe and Great Britain during the time of its farthest reach\, Joseph Sassoon gives us a riveting generational saga of the making of this magnificent family dynasty. \nBooks will be available for sale. A book signing will follow the conversation. \nJoseph Sassoon is Professor of History and Political Economy at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and holds the al-Sabah Chair in Politics and Political Economy of the Arab World. He is also a Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s College\, Oxford\, where he also completed his PhD. Professor Sassoon\, whose research focuses on political economy\, economic history\, Iraq\, Iraqi refugees\, and authoritarianism\, has published extensively and is the author of five books. \nBinyamin Appelbaum is the lead writer on economics and business for The New York Times editorial board. He writes about public policy\, often through the lens of economics. In recent years he has focused on issues including economic inequality\, climate change and the housing crisis. Appelbaum examines what is broken and illuminates paths that might lead to a better place. \n  \n  \nJoseph Sassoon Photo Crefit: Michael Lionstar
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/joseph-sassoon-discusses-his-book-the-sassoons-the-great-global-merchants-and-the-making-of-an-empire-in-conversation-with-new-york-times-writer-binyamin-appelbaum/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT! At Issue: The Erasure of Black History Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian Marcia Chatelain and New York Times White House Correspondent Erica L. Green
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereHill Center launched its new public affairs discussion series\, At Issue in April. The series examines the many critical issues we are faced with today. \nSince taking office\, President Trump has tried to reframe the country’s past involving racism and discrimination by de-emphasizing that history or at times denying that it happened. As historian Marcia Chatelain notes\, “When you erase history\, you make people more vulnerable to abuses of power.” \nErica L. Greem has reported on concerns surrounding President Trump’s executive orders and their potential impact on Black history education and recognition. Specifically\, Green has described how the orders have raised concerns about the possible re-framing of American history and culture\, which some fear could lead to the minimizing\, ignoring\, or even erasure of aspects of Black experiences and contributions to the nation’s past. In a June 20th New York Times analysis\, Green writes\, “The president’s decision to snub Juneteenth — a day that has been cherished by generations of Black Americans before it was named a federal holiday in 2021 — is part of a pattern of words and actions by Mr. Trump that minimize\, ignore or even erase some of the experiences and history of Black people in the United States. Since taking office in January\, he has tried to reframe the country’s past involving racism and discrimination by de-emphasizing that history or at times denying that it happened. Government websites have been scrubbed of hundreds of words\, including “injustice” and “oppression.” Federal agencies eliminated or obscured the contributions of Black heroes\, from the Tuskegee Airmen who fought in the military\, to Harriet Tubman\, who guided enslaved people along the Underground Railroad. School libraries were purged of writings by pre-eminent Black authors like Maya Angelou. Mr. Trump has assailed the Smithsonian Institution for what he characterized as “divisive\, race-centered ideology” in its exhibits on race. He ordered the renaming of monuments to honor Confederate soldiers who fought to preserve slavery. Taken together\, Mr. Trump’s actions are part of a larger cultural and political battle\, in which diversity has become an all-purpose target for society’s ills.” “Trump’s behavior around Juneteenth isn’t isolated at all — it speaks to how he views our community\, and everyone who doesn’t look like him or isn’t as wealthy as he is\,” notes Derrick Johnson\, the president of the N.A.A.C.P. “It’s why he’s stripping away our rights\, erasing our history and silencing our voices.” \n\nMarcia Chatelain is the Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Chatelain has received awards and honors from the Ford Foundation\, the American Association of University Women\, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. During her twelve years at at Georgetown University\, Chatelain won several awards for her teaching and university service\, including the 2022 Georgetown Black Alumni Council Distinguished Leader Award\, the 2021 Georgetown Alumni James S. Ruby Faculty Appreciation Award\, and in 2018\, a Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professorship\, among others. In 2016\, The Chronicle of Higher Education named her a Top Influencer in academia in recognition of her social media campaign #FergusonSyllabus\, which implored educators to facilitate discussions about the crisis in Ferguson\, Missouri in 2014. She has held an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellowship at New America\, a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship\, and an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship.   The author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration\, she teaches about women’s and girls’ history\, the U.S. Civil Rights Movement\, as well as black capitalism. Her latest book\, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America examines the intricate relationship among African American politicians\, civil rights organizations\, communities\, and the fast-food industry. Chatelain has received numerous awards for Franchise\, including the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History\, the Hagley Prize in Business History\, the Organization of American Historians Lawrence W. Levine Award\, the Hurston Wright Legacy Award\, the Hooks Institute National Book Award\, the Alfred and Fay Chandler Book Award and the James Beard Foundation Award for Writing. \nErica L. Green is a White House correspondent for The New York Times\, covering the daily decisions comings and goings and newsworthy events involving the president\, the vice president and other members of his cabinet. Green is particularly interested in social policy and civil rights\, but covers a range of topics spanning domestic and foreign policy. She is drawn to stories that illustrate how the decisions made on Pennsylvania Avenue impact the American people\, and shape the dynamics of American society. Green joined the White House beat in the summer of 2023\, and covered the last year-and-a-half of the Biden administration\, as well as the 2024 presidential campaign. Prior to that she covered education. \n\n \nPresented in conjunction with ASALH (Association for the Study of African American Life and History\, founded in 1915 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson\, and Hill Center’s Benjamin Drummond Emancipation Day Celebration\, a series that honors America’s first liberated enslaved people with scholarly and celebratory programs that bring together a diverse group of prominent experts\, artists\, and public figures throughout the year to explore the Civil War and its aftermath from the African American perspective. The series is named in honor of the Old Naval Hospital’s first patient\, a young African American seaman.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/at-issue-the-erasure-of-black-history-featuring-pulitzer-prize-winning-historian-marcia-chatelain-and-new-york-time-white-house-correspondent-erica-l-green/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person Events,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:At Issue: The Dismantling of Public Health Institutions Featuring Experts Dr. John Brooks and Dr. Anne Schuchat
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereDr. John Brooks is the former Chief Medical Officer at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of HIV Prevention. Dr. Anne Schuchat was Principal Deputy Director at the CDC from 2015-2021 and served twice as acting director. The discussion will be moderated by Nicholas Florko who writes about health issues for The Atlantic \nHill Center launched its new public affairs discussion series\, At Issue in April. The series will examine the many critical issues we are faced with today. The Trump administration has targeted the American scientific enterprise. It has slashed or frozen budgets at the National Institutes of Health\, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\, and The National Science Foundation\, among other agencies. It has fired or defunded thousands of researchers. As New York Times science editor Alan Burdick writes\, “The chaos is confusing: Isn’t science a force for good? Hasn’t it contained disease?” (suddenly) “facts are elite\, facts are fungible\, facts are false. And once nothing is true\, anything can be true.” \nDr. Brooks and Dr. Schuchat will examine the short and long term consequences of gutting America’s public health institutions. \nRecently\, Dr. Schuchat delivered an opening statement before a subcommittee of Congress  in which she explained how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) protects Americans’ health. \nProblems don’t go away or magically disappear when we stop tracking them. They just are much harder to deal with once they become so big\, that we can’t ignore them anymore. \nWe are all at greater risk from the seemingly indiscriminate cuts to the nation’s core public health capacity and the effects go beyond the reduction in forces and budget cuts at CDC. The restrictions on CDC experts’ communication\, at a time of excruciatingly confusing messaging from top HHS leadership\, is making it harder to control measles outbreaks and threatening a resurgence of other vaccine-preventable diseases. \nAnd Dr. Brooks notes: \nThe chaotic cuts we’re seeing to U.S. public health might yield short-term savings but will substantially increase preventable injury\, illness and suffering with a much greater long-term cost. \nDr. John T. Brooks is an internist and clinical infectious diseases expert who worked for 26 years as a medical officer and epidemiologist at the US Centers for Disease Control. Prior to his retirement in 2024\, he served for ten years as the Chief Medical Officer to the CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention. Dr. Brooks also led CDC teams during emergency responses to anthrax\, SARS\, influenza\, HIV\, Ebola\, Zika\, and mpox\, and served for two years as the chief medical officer for CDC’s COVID-19 Response. Dr. Brooks has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers and participates in the formation of multiple national infectious disease guidelines. Dr. Brooks came to CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in 1998 after completing medical school\, a residency in internal medicine\, and a fellowship in infectious diseases through Harvard Medical School. \nDr. Anne Schuchat is an internist and epidemiologist who was Principal Deputy Director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2015-2021 and served twice as acting director. She was the first Director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) from 2005-2015. Schuchat joined CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in 1988 and played key roles in numerous emergency responses including the COVID-19 pandemic\, the 2019 outbreak of vaping associated lung injuries\, the West Africa Ebola epidemic\, 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic\, and the 2003 SARS outbreak where she deployed to Beijing. In the 1990’s\, Dr. Schuchat spearheaded US guidelines which have prevented more than 100\,000 life-threatening group B streptococcal infections in newborns so far. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine and received the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Schuchat retired as a Rear Admiral (upper half) in the Commissioned Corps of the USPHS in 2018 and from CDC in 2021 \nNicholas Florko is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He covers how business and policy affect our well-being\, with a focus on products that make us sick. Before joining The Atlantic in 2024\, Nick was a reporter for STAT covering the commercial determinants of health and the FDA. In 2023\, Nick was a finalist for a National Magazine Award and the Livingston Award for his reporting on hepatitis C in prisons.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/at-issue-the-dismantling-of-public-health-institutions-featuring-experts-dr-john-brooks-and-dr-anne-schuchat/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Snapshot of DC's Queer Artistry with Mosaic Theatre Company
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HerePresented in Partnership with DC’s Iconic Mosaic Theatre Company \nMosaic Theatre Company presents the DC Premiere of Andy Warhol in Iran which highlights the\nlife and work of one of the most famous queer artists and icons of the 20th century. Join Mosaic\nat the Hill Center to meet and explore the work of some of DC’s current queer artistic talent\,\nexploring galleries alongside conversing with artists alike. \nFeatured artists include photographer Marvin Bowser whose work captures the African diaspora\nexperience\, with a focus on identity\, belonging\, and cultural heritage; Iwan Bagus is a portrait\,\nfood\, fashion\, and fine art photographer and professor at the University of District of Columbia\,\nand Alex Mills\, Synetic Theatre Resident Teaching Artist and Company Member. Their work\nwill be displayed and projected and they will be in conversation with Jacob Ettkin\, Mosaic’s\nEducation and Engagement Manager. \nAndy Warhol in Iran is a provocative\, humorous\, and fictionalized portrait of the artist’s\ninfamous visit to Iran in 1976. Asked by the Empress Farah to create pop-art portraits of the\nroyals\, Andy Warhol arrives in Tehran and is taken hostage by a fascinating university student\,\nhoping to publicize his group’s demands and get their “15 minutes of fame.” A life or death\nstruggle ensues over revolution\, responsibility\, and the arts. \nWritten by Brent Askari and directed by Serge Seiden\, performances run May 29-June 29\, 2025\,\nat the Atlas Performing Arts Center.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/a-snapshot-of-dcs-queer-artistry-with-mosaic-theatre-company/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Galleries,In-person Events,Languages & Humanities,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:Overbeck Lecture: Jack Jones on the building of the National Guard Armory
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereThe 80-Year Struggle to Build the DC National Guard Armory \n  \nHow the vacant land between East Capitol Street and Independence Avenue west of the Anacostia River became a center of civic and military activity is a history worth telling. Jack Jones\, historic preservation specialist at the DC Historic Preservation Office\, will do just that at the May 19 Capitol Hill History Lecture.  \nThe DC National Guard Armory\, immediately recognizable as a local landmark\, was not always at this location; its location and design was the result of decades of government decision-making. Erected as the first purpose-built armory for the DC National Guard\, which still occupies the building\, it is perhaps better known as a civic venue. Many Washingtonians have attended events under the barrel-vaulted drill hall – from watching the clowns and elephants at the circus to dancing to the music at inaugural balls. Despite being the only National Guard unit in the country which reports directly to the President with a federal mission to protect the nation’s capital\, there was a nearly 80-year struggle over building an armory. The history of the DC National Guard Armory reveals not only government decisions over use and design but also how it ultimately was occupied by the National Guard with a strong community use component.  \nSince joining DC’s Historic Preservation Office in the Spring of 2024\, Mr. Jones has been assisting in various research projects and section 106 reviews. He currently serves as project reviewer for the Emerald Street Historic District and the Capitol Hill Historic District\, the largest historic district in the city. Prior to that\, he was preservation manager at Historic Augusta\, Inc.\, a preservation non-profit in Augusta\, Georgia\, for almost three years. Jack earned his bachelor’s degree in history with a minor in political science from the College of Wooster and has a master’s degree in public administration from Augusta University with a concentration in urban planning and community development. \nThe Monday\, May 19\, lecture on the National Guard Armory will be held at Hill Center\, Old Naval Hospital\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE beginning at 7:00 pm. Admission is free but a reservation is requested due to limited capacity. Reservations can be made starting May 5.  Seating will begin at 6:30 pm; available seats will be released to others beginning at 6:45 pm. The power point presentation will begin at 7 pm. If you have a reservation and are unable to attend\, please notify Hill Center (202-549-4172) so that another person can attend.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/overbeck-lecture/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person Events,Lectures & Conversations
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