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The Black Cat is a nightclub in Washington, D.C., located on 14th Street Northwest in the Shaw/U Street neighborhood. The club was founded in 1993 by former Gray Matter drummer Dante Ferrando, along with a group of investors (including D.C. area native, Nirvana drummer, and future Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl) [1] [2] and quickly established itself as a venue for independent music.
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For the first century of its existence, the members of the club refused to accept non-white people as members. [2] Thirty club members quit in protest in 1961, including Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. [2] The club started accepting black members in 1972; the first black member it admitted was Bishop John T. Walker. [2]
By 1920, the neighborhood was predominantly African-American and flourished as the "Black Broadway", the heart of African-American culture in Washington. [2] [1] The area declined for a period following the 1968 Washington riots, but recovered following the 1991 opening of the U Street station of the Washington Metro.
[6] [7] [8] In 2018, DC9 began hosting pop-up bars. [9] It contains a narrow saloon bar with a digital jukebox on the ground floor. The upstairs is a double-wide concert room. [3] There is a glass-enclosed rooftop bar that opened in 2010. [1] [10] DC9 has a no-phone policy at its DJ events and encourages people to check in the phones with their ...
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(Washington, D.C.) Peaking at 75% black in the mid-1970s after five previous decades of the Great Migration increased the black population five-fold, DC is 46–49% black in 2018. DC remains the largest African-American percentage population of any state or territory in the mainland US. [citation needed] Adams Morgan; Anacostia; Arboretum ...