Public Welfare Foundation restores the nation’s first Black designed, constructed, and owned building

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Public Welfare Foundation restores the nation’s first Black designed, constructed, and owned building

By Robyn F. Barnes, Special to the AFRO The True Reformer Building at 1200 U Street Northwest in D.C.’s Shaw District is at once, a glimpse of the past, an […]

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