People's District

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

"With time, I have gotten pretty good at knowing when someone is going to buy, or if they are j...

Now, I'm a point guard on my high school team. I learned a lot playing organized ball, but out ...

In D.C., I have gone in directions I never thought I would go into with costume design, like wo...

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

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

Do you know how many times I have been told that THEARC is the best kept secret in the city? De...

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

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

This cemetery is full of stories about D.C. and our nation's history.

I never gave poverty or mental illness a thought. It just wasn’t in my life. Then, my son was...

A lot of people hate on graffiti and vandals because they think we are destroying a place, but ...

One of the things that dawned on me from an early age was that life was not fair in terms of ge...

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

I never learned no reading or writing. Now, my children read and write for me.

Still, there is a lot stereotyping that they give SE, but there is also a lot that comes out of...