Category: Racial disparities

In the latest episode of his CNN show United Shades of America, comedian W. Kamau Bell travels to our fair District. He notes that the anger people feel towards the nation’s capital is separate from the local city. “If you hate Washington, D.C., the thing you actually hate is Washington—and, most likely, you don’t know much about D.C.” … Continue reading W. Kamau Bell “Exposes” the Real DC

An article from DCist notes that Black D.C. residents represent 47 percent of the city’s population, but a new report from the ACLU of D.C. found that from 2013 to 2017, 86 percent of people arrested by the city’s police department were black. Read the full article>>