Since 2014 we've been documenting how racial covenants and serial displacement shaped the nation's capital. Tweets are Sarah Shoenfeld's.
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For years we've pressed the city to digitize the land records needed to complete our map of racial covenants in DC. For now, we need your help mapping the racially restrictive covenants that once covered much of the city. Learn how here! mappingprejudice.umn.edu/tak…
Seen this morning at 15th and Constitution #thisisnotnormal @WashProbs
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Editors' Featured Articles: Making power visible: Business improvement districts and #CreativePlacemaking in Washington, DC by Susanna F. Schaller, Aaron Howe, Coy McKinney and Sarah Shoenfeld
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Join us tonight to learn about Mapping Segregation in WDC and how you can help us complete our map of racial covenants that once covered half the city. Sign up here! mappingprejudice.umn.edu/tak… @MapPrejudice
Good critique here re @CMFrumin's bill "Addressing Legacies of Housing Segregation in Chevy Chase."
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Look fwd to celebrating the work of Empower DC this Thursday
We're celebrating 20 years of Organizing Community Power! Check out our video recap with some highlights of the last two decades of people power - see anyone you know? # Organize youtube.com/watch?v=WzD-Kp9Z…
The racial & economic segregation baked into DC's development has led DC's blackest wards to be the ones most vulnerable to flooding. Thank you @holaculturadc for making use of our work at mappingsegregationdc.org to provide such deep context for your reporting.
Uncover the untold story of persistent flooding in D.C. neighborhoods. From ruined basements to rising costs, residents like Elizabeth Hall have endured the devastating impact of unpredictable floods.
🔗: holacultura.com/hidden-costs…
Stop by our table tomorrow to learn about mappingsegregation.org, dclegacyproject.org, and dcpreservation.org/african-a…
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This piece grounds the case for reparations in specific historical harms to Black Washingtonians, esp. the taking of land & other exploitative real estate practices. And it calls for reparative justice by holding accountable those who have benefited. medium.com/seventhirty-dc/op…
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Per @DCFPI & @iteptweets, DC has .2% of the U.S. population but .5% of the nation’s extreme wealth (net worth over $30 million). 0.4% of DC tax filers (roughly 1,500 households) have net worth over $30 million, holding 46% of all DC's wealth.
Thanks also to the work of @tanyaboza, @Christy_E_Lopez and @jg_bollard for informing this essay. Also see the testimony of Black Broad Branch descendants from the reparations hearing in May - historicchevychasedc.org/rec… - and read about their work via historicchevychasedc.org.
Morning read - Reparations for Black DC medium.com/seventhirty-dc/op…
Nice to see the Council Office of Racial Equity (@dcracialequity) cite this co-written article by Susanna Schaller, @Anarchopology, @ecoylogy, & Sarah Shoenfeld from a recent issue of Urban Studies on private urban governance. doi.org/10.1177/004209802311… (1/4)
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2) does not offer Black residents and other residents of color equal opportunities to represent their interests, 3) has broad authority to exercise power over communities with little accountability to everyone impacted (3/4)
Great summary here of Mara Cherkasky's piece in Washington History on DC's Scott family, who lost five homes to eminent domain in 1912-1948: one at Meridian Hill, three in Reno City, one in Brookland. daily.jstor.org/segregation-…
This film is now online via dclegacyproject.org & @BFNA_docs!
“Barry Farm: Community, Land & Justice in Washington DC” is now streaming online!
Watch the film at bfnadocs.org/barry-farm
It’s DC history. It’s American history. It's now free to watch online
