Mapping Segregation in Washington DC
@MappingSegregDC
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Since 2014 we've been documenting how racial covenants and serial displacement shaped the nation's capital. Tweets are Sarah Shoenfeld's.
Washington, DC
Joined November 2015
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!
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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 https://t.co/ERBcOIJj95
#EditorsPicks #FreeAccess #placemaking #UrbanGovernance
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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! https://t.co/BjAcPwiwWv
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Good critique here re @CMFrumin's bill "Addressing Legacies of Housing Segregation in Chevy Chase." https://t.co/DYfR0bBdHa
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Near the end of the 19th century, Robert Terrell and his wife Mary Church went to purchase a home in LeDroit Park, then a predominantly white residential haven in racially segregated DC. Many of the...
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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
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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 https://t.co/vPovwBcYYb 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. 🔗: https://t.co/CVIZevfD8l
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Stop by our table tomorrow to learn about https://t.co/gHzHpB512Y,
https://t.co/JQLsecAFde, and https://t.co/SWA89cVFSL
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dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org
Join D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice for the annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair on Saturday, August 19 from 8:45AM - 12:15PM in-person at Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS.
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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 - https://t.co/GgD6HhQ7FC - and read about their work via https://t.co/viwDXmd4qN.
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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.
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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
By Sarah Jane Shoenfeld
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4) primarily serves the interests of wealthier, white residents at the expense of Black and other residents of color who are unhoused or have lower incomes.
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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)
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@dcracialequity's assessment of a bill to establish a new BID concludes: "The Friendship Heights BID would not uniquely worsen racial inequity in the District, but rather expand a BID system that 1) has contributed to the displacement of Black residents (2/4)
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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. https://t.co/fdN5RK223f (1/4)
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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.
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The Fifth Amendment allows the government to buy private property for the public good. That public good was long considered the expansion of white neighborhoods.
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This film is now online via https://t.co/JQLsecAFde & @BFNA_docs!
“Barry Farm: Community, Land & Justice in Washington DC” is now streaming online! Watch the film at https://t.co/SLF4GXvaaM It’s DC history. It’s American history. It's now free to watch online
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