Parking restrictions, road closures for MLK Peace Walk

By Colleen Kelleher
January 17, 2022 | 8:58 AM

The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Walk takes place in D.C. Monday morning.

Individuals and nonprofits “dedicated to peace and positivity” will be walking, according to the MLK Holiday D.C. website.

Here are the parking restrictions and street closures you need to know about:

There will be no parking on Minnesota Avenue from Good Hope Road to 16th Street, SE, until 2 p.m.
Minnesota Avenue from Good Hope Road to 16th Street, SE, will be closed to traffic until 1 p.m.

D.C. police said all vehicles that are parked in violation of the emergency no parking signs will be ticketed and towed.

The following streets may be closed intermittently from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.:

South Capitol Street from Potomac Avenue to Howard Road, SE;
Howard Road from South Capitol Street to Martin Luther King Jr Avenue, SE;
Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue from Howard Road to Good Hope Road, SE;
Good Hope Road from Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue to Minnesota Avenue, SE.

The walk starts at 10 a.m.

Related events are being streamed on YouTube.

Beyond Chinatown: Researching Asian American and Pacific Islander spaces in DC

By Abigail Constantino
May 3, 2022 | 4:25 AM

The paifang outside the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station, officially called Friendship Archway, is the most prominent symbol of the Asian American presence in D.C. But a lot of other, more hidden places had a historical significance to Chinese and Koreans in the District, and a research project is underway to mark them. It’s called a historic context statement, and it hopes to provide a framework for evaluating sites for their importance to the story of Asian Americans in D.C. It's the first-ever historic context statement on Asian Americans in the District, and also the first major study that’s been done on Asian Americans within historic preservation in D.C., said Sojin Kim, a senior consultant of the project, who also serves on the board of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation.

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