Coley Gray

Sep 9, 2024 | washingtoncitypaper.com | Coley Gray

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! The new documentary Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round takes its title from Langston Hughes’ 1942 poem about the absurdities of segregation. “On the bus we’re put in the back,” he writes, “But there ain’t no back/ To a merry-go-round!” In the film, the carousel in question was (and is today) a main attraction at the Glen Echo Amusement Park circa 1960.

Jul 28, 2024 | medium.com | Coley Gray

The studio of the late Jacob Kainen is located in a slightly run-down, light industrial area of Kensington, Maryland. It houses hundreds of his paintings, prints, and drawings, testimony to Kainen's extraordinary career spanning from the 1930s until his death in 2001. As accomplished a curator, scholar, champion and connector of fellow artists as he was a painter and printmaker, Kainen indelibly shaped DC's postwar art scene through both his long-term post in the Smithsonian and his own oeuvre.

Apr 3, 2024 | washingtoncitypaper.com | Steve Kiviat |Coley Gray |Colleen Kennedy |Serena Zets |Allison R. Shely

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! The 50th annual DC History Conference will offer presentations from historians, journalists, graduate students, and current and former area residents with specialized knowledge on the myriad aspects of D.C. life from the 1700s to the present. Thursday night, April 4, the event kicks off with a discussion on the 1968 uprising following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. between the Atlantic’s senior editor Vann R.

Feb 23, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Coley Gray

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Feb 23, 2024 | washingtoncitypaper.com | Coley Gray

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Comedian Lizz Winstead came away from the January 2017 Women’s March exhilarated but chagrined. With Donald Trump newly situated in the White House, the momentum for bold and unapologetic abortion access activism was there. Sustaining a movement, though, requires engaging activists in more than one-off marches.