The Federal News Network speaks with Recreation News editor Katherine Peach about interesting things to do in and near the nation’s capital. This week:

• on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day consider taking your school age children to an event highlighting the long and as yet unfinished struggle for racial justice in America, such as a presentation by the music and spoken word artist Baba Bomani on the life and career of Frederick Douglass at the Carroll County Arts Center (Monday, 2:00 p.m.).

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