Updates
ONE DC Members Learn Grassroots Organizing Skills at Center for Third World Organizing Training
October 30, 2018
By Patrick GregoireOn October 5 through 7, 2018 over 15 ONE DC members, as well as other local organizers, activists, and tenants participated in the Center for Third Organizing's (CTWO) Community Action Training. Over...
Read More ShareGrassroots DC Media Collective Moves into the Black Workers & Wellness Center
October 30, 2018
By Liane ScottIn October, the Grassroots DC Media Collective moved it’s headquarters into ONE DC’s Black Workers & Wellness Center. The Media Collective is a project of the nonprofit Grassroots DC and is an...
Read More ShareThe Right to Stay Put
October 30, 2018
By Dominic Moulden, Gregory D. Squires, and Aristotle Theresa When anything goes wrong in a city, policymakers all too often want to move Black people around, asserted Mindy Fullilove, a clinical psychiatrist at the New...
Read More ShareCommunity Celebration & Fundraiser at the ONE DC Black Workers & Wellness Center
October 30, 2018
On Saturday, October 20, Resource Generation sponsored a community celebration and fundraiser as a kick-off event to raise $300,000 for renovations to the ONE DC Black Workers & Wellness Center. The event lasted from...
Read More ShareCreative Reconstruction: a Period of Collective Learning, Healing, and Transformation
October 29, 2018
“We have to transform ourselves in order to transform the world” - Grace Lee Boggs At our annual retreat this past July– members, staff, volunteers, and Shared Leadership team members sat under the shade...
Read More ShareDefend the Black Vote for One Fair wage
September 11, 2018
One Fair Wage - Initiative 77, which would raise the wage for tipped workers from $3.89/hr to $15/hr PLUS TIPS by 2025, was passed by the majority of DC voters in the June...
Read More ShareSummertime Cooperation: Co-op Community Cookout
August 31, 2018
On August 4, the Black Workers and Wellness Center (BWWC) hosted ONE DC’S first Co-op Community Cookout event of the year. Following up from a successful People’s Platform event in February, Cooperation DC held...
Read More ShareBlack August: A Commemoration of Freedom Fighters
August 31, 2018
For our monthly People's Platform event, ONE DC commemorated Black August, as reflected in People's Platform principle #7, which calls for decriminalization, demilitarization, and prison abolition. We attended in solidarity a prison letter writing...
Read More ShareMaking the Just City Project Continues Participatory Action Research in Shaw
August 30, 2018
By Raheem AnthonAs part of the Making The Just City project, Team Shaw, DC and Team Orange, NJ have both been finishing up the last of their interviews with key players within each community....
Read More ShareWhat Does Development Look like in a Culture of Health?
August 01, 2018
By Haley Cureton, Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Minneapolis On June 7-8th, I visited ONE DC to learn about Making the Just City, a research project on gentrification and displacement in Washington, DC and Orange, NJ,...
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