The Black contralto was barred from singing in Constitution Hall, and instead was invited to sing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for 75,000 attendees and millions of radio listeners.

A man is dead hours after a car flew off the Arlington Memorial Bridge and into the Potomac River when it collided ... Bridge at Rock Creek Parkway and Lincoln Memorial Circle, NW reopened to ...

Officials have transitioned to a "recovery effort" to find the bodies of the 67 people believed to have died in the crash ...