Posts tagged Race
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Look how real estate professionals in 1948 perpetuated segregation in DC
It wasn’t that long ago that DC’s Real Estate Board told agents not to sell homes in white areas to black people. A 1948 report called Segregation in Washington put the discrimination into plain language. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Got a GM
A general manager, almost; More time for PTC; Teetering toward tolls; Creative cops; Test the testing; Drive-to urbanism; For the public good, or not; The self-driving choice; Idaho in Europe. Keep reading…
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This video shows why it’s important for black women to bike ... and organize
The Washington area has two organizations devoted to getting black women and girls to ride bicycles: Black Women Bike and a local chapter of the national group Black Girls Do Bike. This video by Groundswell talks about why these are important. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stayhere-Arentmoving
Metro mayhem; To Fairfax for free; Pay up for public housing; Politicians and poets; Potomac postponed; FBI crystal ball; Vision Zero, codified; Suburban salad bowls. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What’s on the Pike?
Plans for the Pike; Loss of communication; Schools, the commute killer; Quarry’s coming; I believe in MPD; Behind Marriott’s move; Suburbia, socially engineered; Cruising out of style; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hogan’s choices
Purple haze; Red riot; Highway work; Metro’s next steps; Worth the cost; Need parking?; Bad roads; Fair housing win; And…. Keep reading…
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There’s a big racial disparity in where people born in DC end up moving (or not moving)
Thirty-two percent of black people born in DC still live there, but only 4% of white people born there do. Where they’ve moved to also differs greatly by race. This disparity arose from racial and racist policies in our history. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Changing landscapes
Turkey burgers; Kiss it goodbye; At least we’re not Chicago; Baltimore settling; Barry’s spirit; What American dream?; Through the grapevine; Will millennials adopt the car?; Resuscitating Underground Atlanta; A reason to walk; Cycles in the air. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: May day
Budget math; Fare skipping; Baltimore’s deep-rooted problems; Successful service; CaBi workhorse; No parking history; How we commute; Good transit, strong economy; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Tax deals
Save the trust fund; Tax stadiums; Black History and urban planning; Homeowners demand help; Fairfax cold to charter plan; High driving; Intersection of doom; Portland and DC changing; And…. Keep reading…