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Loïs Mailou Jones and the Little Paris Studio

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on February 13, 2019October 9, 2025

Loïs Mailou Jones, acclaimed artist and professor of design and watercolor at Howard University, lived in Brookland, where she set up the “Little Paris Studio,” to work with artists of color.

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Lucy Diggs Slowe and Mary Burrill and the fight to stay in their Brookland home

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on April 15, 2015October 9, 2025

Two extraordinary women of color lived at 1256 Kearny Street during the 1920s and 30s. This is their story.

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