Black women across the U.S. are starting businesses at six times the national average. According to a 2018 report commissioned…
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…
This excerpt has been adapted from Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. (UNC Press, April…
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…
