Muriel Elizabeth Bowser (born August 2, 1972) is an American politician serving as the eighth Mayor of the District of Columbia since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented Ward 4 as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2015. She is the second female Mayor of the District of Columbia after Sharon Pratt, and the first woman to be reelected to that position.
D.C. Go-Go Museum set to open in LGBTQ Check It building
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, two members of the D.C. Council, and D.C. Congressional Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton took part on Monday, Nov.
18, in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the soon-to-open Go-Go Museum & Café in a building in the Anacostia neighborhood owned by the LGBTQ youth-run company and community services center Check It Enterprises.
The highly anticipated Go-Go Museum & Café will be in one of three adjoining small buildings on Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., S.E., that Check It Enterprises purchased in 2020 with the support of a $2 million city grant approved through legislation passed by the D.C.
Council and signed by Mayor Bowser. Ron Moten, Check It’s managing member and cofounder who serves as adviser to its youth members, is also the co-founder with American University professor and author Natalie Hopkinson of the Go-Go Museum & Café.
