Andy Shallal
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Anas "Andy" Shallal is an Iraqi-American artist, activist, philanthropist and entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder and CEO of the Washington, D.C., area restaurant, bookstore, and performance
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Meridian Hill Park
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Meridian Hill Park, also known as Malcolm X Park, is an urban park in Washington, D.C., located in the Meridian Hill neighborhood that straddles the border between Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights. T
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…and has been named Man of the Year by the Washington Peace Center. In 2005, Shallal spoke at the counter-inaugural of President George W. Bush held at Malcolm X Park. Later that year, he visited and provided catering at Sheehan's Camp Casey protest in Crawford, Texas. Sheehan later participated in an Impeachment…
Cascading Waterfall, by sculptor John Joseph Earley, is a central feature of the park.
Soldiers from the 7th New York Militia Regiment at Camp Cameron in 1861
Mary Foote Henderson was instrumental in the park's creation.
Homes on the present-day northern edge of the park that were demolished in the 1910s via eminent domain