Join Community Watch & Comment -- The Wednesday Edition on WPFW 89.3FM Wednesday, February 3rd, 11 am-12 pm for Black Women Breaking Barriers: The Vote & Beyond This online event will be live streamed and archived for future viewings. Our guest, Dr. Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor […]
Wednesday, June 9th, 11 am-12 pm, ET on Community Watch & Comment -- The Wednesday Edition; WPFW 89.3FM, wpfwfm.org (live-streamed and archived) The Second: Race & Guns in a Fatally Unequal America How can part of the Constitution be consistently used as a weapon against Blackness? Our Guest: Historian Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor […]
Before chain coffeeshops and luxury high-rises, before even the beginning of desegregation and the 1968 riots, Washington's Greater U Street was known as Black Broadway. From the early 1900s into the 1950s, African Americans plagued by Jim Crow laws in other parts of town were free to own businesses here and built what was often […]
