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Resources from the Community, For the Community
November 30, 2017
By Rebecca Harris, ONE DC memberRaising more than $5,000 for the Black Workers & Wellness Center, Showing Up for Racial Justice DC (SURJ) & ONE DC hosted a teach-in fundraiser on November 13th featuring...
Read More ShareArmed Security Forces Terrorize Brookland Manor Community
November 16, 2017
Developer Mid-City Financial's hired, armed security forces continue to escalate harassment and intimidation at Brookland Manor in Northeast Washington, DC, where Mid-City is attempting to install a luxury redevelopment plan at the expense of...
Read More ShareHistorically Black DC Paper Publishes Article Supporting Displacement of Black Families
October 10, 2017
Historically Black DC paper, the Washington Informer, has published an article that supports a plan for gentrification, and the displacement of hundreds of Black families from Northeast Washington, DC.The article is co-written by Thaddeus...
Read More SharePower to the People: Reflections from the People's Congress of Resistance, September 16-17, 2017
September 30, 2017
By Caitlin Cocilova and Kristi Matthews "I was generally inspired by the People's Congress of Resistance...I also got choked up when marching from Howard University to the White House almost to the point of...
Read More ShareLink Up for Black August
September 12, 2017
By Angie Whitehurst For our monthly People's Platform political education event, ONE DC held "Link Up for Black August" at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre. Black August is a month of commemoration of the death...
Read More ShareThe Struggle at Dahlgreen Courts
August 14, 2017
In 2011, Dahlgreen Courts residents exercised their rights under D.C.’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (also known as TOPA) to purchase the two-building, 96 unit historic complex in partnership with a Philadelphia-based non-profit developer,...
Read More ShareMetro: Profits Over People
August 02, 2017
Below is a speech given by Ms J at the Transit Justice Rally with the Save Our System Coalition on June 29, 2017. Good evening. My name is Jourgette Reid-Sillah. I am a resident...
Read More ShareA D.C. Neighborhood’s Transformation From “Chocolate” to “Cappuccino”
July 30, 2017
By Claire CookTo longtime residents of Washington, D.C., the findings presented in Derek Hyra’s Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City—that gentrifying neighborhoods’ racial and economic diversity does not translate into integration—is likely...
Read More ShareJune People's Platform - Right to Transit
July 30, 2017
On June 29, ONE DC members joined the Save Our System Coalition in organizing DC residents and community members at the Columbia Heights Metro station for a Transit Justice Rally to express our discontent...
Read More ShareONE Bit of Good News - Alfred McKenzie Award
June 30, 2017
On June 7th, at the Wiley A. Branton Award Luncheon, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee presented ONE DC with the Alfred McKenzie Award. We thank the WLC for their ongoing support & commitment to ONE...
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