On August 19, 1791, Benjamin Banneker wrote a lengthy letter to Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, in which "having taken up my pen in order to direct to you as a present, a copy of an ...
EACH OF JABARI’S PIECES TELL A STORY. THIS PIECE IS MY INTERPRETATION OF BENJAMIN BANNEKER. SOME ABOUT HISTORIC FIGURES, SOME ABOUT EVERYDAY PEOPLE. BUT ALL HONORING THIS SACRED SPACE.