Election 2024·State & Local·Voting·Ward 8·Washington D.C. Initiative 83, Gentrification, and Housing Justice: Key Issues Drive Ward 8’s ANC Race November 9, 2024 Vida Poyner-ChilliousandAnijah Franklin By Vida Poyner-Chillious and Anijah Franklin Howard University News Service As D.C. residents entered Union Temple…
DNC·Election 2024 Local Residents React To DNC and Revitalization Plans Around United Center August 24, 2024 Trinity KinslowandTrinity Webster-Bass By Trinity Kinslow, Audio Report By Trinity Webster-Bass Howard University News Service As the Democratic National…
Environment·State & Local·Third Reconstruction·Washington D.C. Not In My Neighborhood: DC Community Residents Speak Out Against Hazardous Plant March 14, 2023 by Summer Brown By Summer Brown, NewsVision Reporter Environmental injustice is just one example of systemic racism facing…
Breathing While Black·Water Pollution Runoff: How Will Anacostia Improvements Flow Through Lives East of the River April 12, 2022 by Isaac Welch By Isaac Welch Howard University News Service Running 8.5 miles from Bladensburg, Maryland, to Hain’s Point…
Off-campus·State & Local·Video Life Before Gentrification: One DC Man’s Story April 30, 2019 by Jennifer Thomas In Washington, D.C. more than 20,000 African American families have been displaced due to gentrification. Here…
Video Gentrification December 16, 2017 by Shawna Mizelle The changing of a neighborhood Redevelopment in Washington, D.C. has been a hot topic for quite…
Video Wanda’s on 7th is Here to Stay December 1, 2017 by Judayah Murray Local Business Owner Survives, Thrives through Gentrification Wanda Henderson, owner of Wanda's on 7th salon, is…
News Black Churches Being Pushed Out of Nation’s Capital October 17, 2016 by Courtney Davis Gentrification in Washington, D.C. Residential only parking signs like these are pushing African-American churches out of…
Video Vacant Housing in the Nation’s Capital March 11, 2016 by Tiffani DuPree Photo courtesy: washingtoncitypaper.com The D.C. community is no stranger to new housing and constant construction, but…
Video A Community Crumbles: Barry Farm Set for Demolition November 16, 2015 by Howard University News Service Residents of Barry Farm Public Housing Community Fear a Future of Uncertainty After the Civil War,…