Historic U Street Basks in the Glow of National Attention
Amidst all the national attention that DC has garnered during this inaugural week, particular attention seems to have been paid to U Street. As the nation welcomes its first African-American president, the neighborhood's legacy as the Black Broadway has made it a fitting subject for the flurry of recently published articles that explored the "real DC". The fact that Obama himself dropped in on neighborhood landmark Ben's Chili Bowl last week didn't hurt either.