The D.C. Council spent a significant amount of time discussing health access, especially access to hospitals, during budget deliberations this past month. We wondered: how does access to pharmacies—one…

By Ashanté Reese This excerpt has been adapted from Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C….

On April 25, 2019, D.C. Policy Center Deputy Director of Policy Kathryn Zickuhr testified on B23-0038, “Racial Equity Achieves Results…

For the past several years, Mapping Segregation in Washington DC has been documenting the historic role of real estate developers,…

In recent years, jurisdictions across the country have increasingly turned to fines and fees[1] both as a policy mechanism and…

This article is adapted from “Teachable Moment: ‘Blockbusting’ and Racial Turnover in Mid-Century D.C.,” which originally appeared in Washington History,…

This article is adapted from “‘A Strictly White Residential Section’: The Rise and Demise of Racially Restrictive Covenants in Bloomingdale,”…

By Laura Wilson Phelan and Lee Teitel   After centuries of exclusion and segregation within the American education system, major…

On the surface, D.C.’s economy is thriving. But this is not the case for all residents. D.C. is among the…