Council member, former DC mayor Vincent Gray has ‘mild stroke’

By Abigail Constantino
December 6, 2021 | 9:57 PM

D.C. Council member Vincent Gray was hospitalized for bronchitis over the weekend, but a spokesperson said he is feeling well and eager to go home.

Gray, who represents Ward 7, developed bronchitis last week and checked himself to the hospitalized, where a spokeswoman Takiyah “T.N.” Tate said Gray had a “mild stroke.”

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He’s been in contact with D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson, and won’t be attending the council session Tuesday, when among other things, the council will discuss renaming Wilson High School.

“[Gray] is upbeat and eager to return home and to the office,” Tate said.

On Monday, the 79-year-old council member worked on Ward 7 redistricting issues and other council business while in the hospital.

Gray was the D.C. mayor from 2011 to 2015.

National Museum of the American Latino to be housed in historic Smithsonian building

By Neal Augenstein
September 1, 2026 | 10:36 AM

The Smithsonian Institution has decided to put the National Museum of the American Latino into an existing, historic building, rather than constructing a new one. The Smithsonian Board of Regents on Monday designated the Arts and Industries Building, a 145-year-old redbrick Victorian structure located between the Smithsonian Castle and the Hirshhorn Museum, as the permanent site of the National Museum of the American Latino, which Congress authorized in 2020. In 2022, the Smithsonian narrowed its survey for permanent locations for the National Museum of the American Latino and the American Women's History Museum to four locations near the National Mall on land owned by the National Park Service. The Arts and Industries Building, located at 900 Jefferson St. SW, was one of the four sites. New construction on National Park Service land would require congressional approval. However, since the Smithsonian already owns the Arts and Industries Building, the institution can place the National Museum of the American Latino in the existing building without additional legislation.

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