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Opening of Ivy City Club House Celebrated
Residents of the Ivy City community gathered Saturday to celebrate the opening of the Ivy City Club House, a new…
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Park Morton Residents to Protest D.C.’s Failed New Communities Initiative
(Photo/Empower DC) Residents and supporters of D.C.’s Park Morton are gathering Tuesday to bring focus to a failed initiative that…
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New Report Blasts D.C. Mayor’s Handling of COVID-19 Crisis
D.C.'s Black residents have died from the coronavirus at a rate nearly six times that of the city's white population,…
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‘Black Homes Matter’ Rally Calls for D.C. Council Funding of Low-Income, Public Housing Programs
A coalition of organizations is holding a rally at 3 p.m. Monday to call attention to D.C.'s need for increased…
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D.C. Community Leaders Share ‘Better Than Before’ Housing Plans
In a recent online forum, D.C. community leaders laid out several housing plans to meet Mayor Muriel Bowser's challenge of…
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Grassroots Org Pushes D.C. Mayor to Earmark Crummell School Funding
Forty years ago, historic Alexander Crummell School, located in the heart of D.C.'s Ivy City community, was shuttered and fenced…
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Webinar to Address D.C. Housing Woes During Pandemic
A webinar moderated by attorney Caitlin Cocilova of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless will be held at 1:30…
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Residents, Advocates to D.C. Mayor: Don’t Wash Your Hands of Public Housing
As D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser prepares the city's fiscal budget, public housing residents, along with a coalition of tenant organizing,…
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D.C.’s Barry Farm Designated as Historic Landmark
By a unanimous vote, DC's Historic Preservation Review Board on Thursday designated a portion of Barry Farm on Stevens Road…
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Timeline for Barry Farm
In early 1868, the federal Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands purchased 375 acres from the heirs of Washington…
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