Updates
The Black Workers Center at The United Black Fund
May 30, 2016
ONE DC has been preparing to transform the basement of the United Black Fund into a fully functional and permanent space for the new Black Workers Center. United Black Fund CEO Barry LeNoir has...
Read More ShareStatement about ONE DC Changes, May 2016
May 10, 2016
“We, the people of ONE DC, envision the nation's capital as a place where low income, people of color, and immigrant, communities are organized, educated, and trained to take action to create and...
Read More ShareLearning from the Past to Promote Our Future
February 28, 2016
Wisdom Circle: Collective Courage On the afternoon of Sunday, February 21, a dozen ONE DC, Cooperation DC, and Black Workers Center members and organizers gathered to discuss Collective Courage: A History of African American...
Read More ShareWorking While Black: Reflections on 2nd Annual Black Worker Center Convening
November 23, 2015
By Ben Woods Black workers are one of the primary social forces in the Black Liberation Movement in the US. Historically and today, they experience racism on the job, in labor unions, and the...
Read More ShareRacial Equity and Climate Change: Save the Planet, Save the People!
October 31, 2015
At the September 23 Climate Change Rally on the National Mall, ONE DC organizer Jennifer Bryant spoke of the lack of sustainability of current economic policies -- both to the global climate and the...
Read More Share#BlackLivesMatter: Vigil in Support of Longtime D.C. Residents Fighting Displacement
October 26, 2015
October 26, 2015Press Contact: Marybeth Onyeukwu, ONE DC Organizer - [email protected] WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Monday, October 26th, Mount Vernon Plaza Tenant Association, People’s Platform, Justice First and Black Lives Matter DMV held a...
Read More ShareNot just an organization, a family.
September 29, 2015
By Assata Harris A Reflection on Working with ONE DC.This summer, I experienced some type of divine intervention, I found ONE DC. I am originally a Bay Area native, and have longed and often...
Read More ShareA summer of “education, action, and reflection.”
August 31, 2015
By Mia Campbell, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor & the Working Poor at Georgetown This summer was one of the most rewarding and eye opening times of my life. The Kalmanovitz Initiative Summer Organizing Internship...
Read More ShareThose Truly Resilient in DC
August 31, 2015
By Kevin Ruano, Kalmanovitz Intiative for Labor & the Working Poor at Georgetown I don’t know whether I want to work as a community organizer. Whether that be because I possibly discovered, in me,...
Read More ShareFrom DC to Cleveland: Building a Movement for Black Lives
July 29, 2015
When I first learned about the Movement for Black Lives Convening, I was immediately excited. As a mental health clinician, I had been having an internal conversation about the need for Black spaces,...
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