Washington DC Archives - The Social Register

Lauren C. Vaughan Will Lead Christ House in Washington Starting December 1

Christ House has been taking in Washington’s sickest homeless patients since 1985, people discharged from hospitals with nowhere to heal. On December 1, 2026, it gets a chief executive who has run a shelter system, served in a mayor’s cabinet, and spent

November 3, 2026

Philanthropy

Gale King Will Receive the Executive Leadership Council’s Heritage Award at Its 40th Anniversary Gala

Gale V. King spent 36 years at one company, and the room that knows that kind of career best is about to say so in public. The Executive Leadership Council will present King with its 2026 Alvaro L. Martins Heritage Award at

October 23, 2026

Philanthropy

Fatima Goss Graves Joins the Ford Foundation Board

Board seats at the Ford Foundation are where grantmaking policy gets set, and one of them now belongs to a lawyer who has spent her career on pay, workplace justice and the safety of women and girls. The foundation announced on October

October 22, 2026

Members of Howard University's Class of 2006 holding their 20th reunion class gift check for $696,078.51

Philanthropy

Four Howard Reunion Classes Presented $1.61 Million at Homecoming

The checks came out on Friday, in the middle of homecoming, and the arithmetic tells the story of what a Howard class can do when it organizes. Four reunion classes presented their class gifts during Homecoming 2026, whose theme was “Wildest Dreams,”

October 19, 2026

Hand-colored tintype portrait from about 1860 of a young Black woman in lace gloves, inscribed 'Remember Me, Annie'

Culture

Remember Me Brings 70 Early Portraits of Black Americans to the National Gallery, Many Shown for the First Time

She measures two and a half inches, and she is looking straight at you. The portrait is a tintype from about 1860, hand-colored, small enough to close inside a locket case. A young Black woman sits in lace gloves and a good

October 19, 2026

Washington DC

Lauren C. Vaughan Will Lead Christ House in Washington Starting December 1

Gale King Will Receive the Executive Leadership Council’s Heritage Award at Its 40th Anniversary Gala

Fatima Goss Graves Joins the Ford Foundation Board

Four Howard Reunion Classes Presented $1.61 Million at Homecoming

Remember Me Brings 70 Early Portraits of Black Americans to the National Gallery, Many Shown for the First Time

The Register

The Social Calendar

Partner With Us

Suggestions

Washington DC

Lauren C. Vaughan Will Lead Christ House in Washington Starting December 1

Gale King Will Receive the Executive Leadership Council’s Heritage Award at Its 40th Anniversary Gala

Fatima Goss Graves Joins the Ford Foundation Board

Four Howard Reunion Classes Presented $1.61 Million at Homecoming

Remember Me Brings 70 Early Portraits of Black Americans to the National Gallery, Many Shown for the First Time

The Register

The Social Calendar

Partner With Us