“The whole Miss Adams Morgan Pageant really started by accident,” says Steven Brandt, a board member of the Dupont Social Club, which organizes the annual drag pageant, now a fixture on many D.C.

Morgan Adams died in the same month that I brought my adopted daughter home from China. She also attended the school where my kid, now a third-grader, is a student, a joyful place where Morgan’s ...

Excerpts from oral history interviews about the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC that appear in the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum’s exhibition, “A Right to the City” (2018- 2020).

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Adams Morgan is one of the rare spots in the city where starched diplomats collide with bar hoppers. No matter where you fall on that scale, when your stomach is rumbling and your throat is parched, ...