By 1956, half of the D.C. areas's 81,000 Jews lived outside of the city limits. Synagogues and many businesses followed.

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Sidra on Raising Your Kids Right

I tell you, Southeast ain't nothing but corruption. I don't want to live or raise my children h...

Rose on Being Where She Wants to Be

All of my life, I have lived in Anacostia and I couldn’t live nowhere else. This is my home. ...

Melvin on Filling Nothingness with Hope

Everyday, I deal with so many young people of color who have not been bred. They were born, but...

April on Bringing Change to the Marbury Plaza

When I tell people about all of this, they are always pretty shocked when they find out that I ...

Sherita on Putting the Neighbor in Neighborhood

I think that we did our children a great disservice when we took the neighbor out of neighborho...

Tony on Freeing His Mind

I think a lot about how my life would have been different had I had never come back to Washingt...

Shanell on Fighting for It

Sometimes I wonder how and why I got where I am today, but I guess that God has a bigger purpos...

Mardez on Being Somebody

I just want to say to anyone who is listening to stay positive and fight fire with fire. Don't ...

Charles on Building Relationships

Running against Marion Barry, you need to have thick skin.

Ayehubizu on Big Chair Coffee

I wanted to open on this side of the river because there are so many people who need coffee and...

Raymin on Standing Together

A lot of these construction companies get a contract and claim to want to boost the local econo...

Duane on Anacostia’s ARCH

What ARCH is trying to do is to help develop businesses that either support the creative econom...

Christylez on Rising Through Education

So, when you bring all these poor people together, you end up creating ghettos just like the gh...

Chris on Rowing on the Anacostia River

Now, I am the stroke man for our boat, which means I set the pace.

Marlon on Documenting Environmental Damage in Anacostia

In my own photography, I try and bring out the beauty in D.C., whether through landscapes or na...