D.C. Restaurant Owner Shares Memories of Dr. King During Civil Rights Movement in Washington

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Day, one Washington, D.C. based restaurant became a spot Dr. King would dine at often. The 92 year-old owner shares her memories she has of the late civil rights activist.

When Virginia Ali and her late husband Ben opened Ben’s Chili Bowl in Washington, D.C. decades ago, it was in a segregated Black community.

“I opened it in 1958 and it’s been 67 years this year,” said Ali…

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