WATCH: House Opens Historic Frederick Douglass Press Gallery
The House Daily Press Gallery was renamed last week after the abolitionist icon. I made a YouTube video about how it all went down (scroll down).
WASHINGTON — The sign went up last Thursday, February 12, right above the door where reporters file in to watch Congress argue about who gets to eat and who gets to starve. Frederick Douglass Press Gallery, it says now. First time in over a century they’ve named the place after an actual person instead of just calling it what it is.