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📚 The Undesirable Many: Celebrating Rosemary Ndubuizu’s New Book on Black Women, Housing, and Resistance
October 31, 2025
ONE DC celebrated member and scholar Dr. Rosemary Ndubuizu at Red Emma’s for her new book The Undesirable Many, a powerful history of Black women organizers fighting displacement and housing insecurity in DC —...
Read More Share🏙️ Building Housing Power Across DC: October's Housing Action Coalition Community Meeting
October 23, 2025
Across DC, tenants and organizers met in Ward 7 for October’s Housing Action Coalition Community Meeting to share stories, map neighborhood challenges, and plan next steps toward decommodified housing. The result: one voice, one...
Read More Share🎥 Art as Resistance: Cracked Shells Film Screening & Community Dialogue
October 23, 2025
Over 150 community members filled the room for Cracked Shells, Ruth Tedla’s documentary on gentrification and resistance in DC. After shared food and deep dialogue, participants left with renewed commitment to remember, rebuild, and...
Read More Share🏡 Grounding in Strategy and Care: October’s Homes For All DC Circle
October 11, 2025
Tenant leaders gathered at the Black Workers & Wellness Center for October’s Homes For All DC Circle, reflecting on how to move from ideas into actions that land. The group focused on care, strategy,...
Read More ShareCraft Power by Culture. Meet the Douglass Change Makers Cooperative
July 10, 2025
They said Black folks couldn't own the block and the brand. We said bet! What happens when creativity, collective power, and Black cultural excellence collide in the heart of Southeast DC? You get the...
Read More ShareHealing Ourselves and Healing the Land
April 10, 2024
“Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.” - Audre Lorde Updates on the Healthy Workers Collective The...
Read More ShareBlack Community Love
March 11, 2024
"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality...I believe...
Read More ShareBuilding Resistance
February 02, 2024
"We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.” - Edward Said Annual Membership Meeting We are pleased...
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