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Anthony Bowen YMCA gallery enters its second year with vibrant mixed-media exhibit evoking the…

Athena Naylor Jul 19, 2019

The Shaw neighborhood’s Anthony Bowen YMCA, the organization’s first African American branch in the world, has an extensive track record of social engagement spanning its 166-year history. With Gallery Y, an exhibition space that debuted…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: Was the DC Council really talking about education?

jonetta rose barras Jun 6, 2019

“This is all about politics,” DC Council Chairman Pro Tempore and Ward 5 representative Kenyan McDuffie said repeatedly last week. He and his colleagues were engaged in a nearly two-hour debate about whether to relocate Benjamin Banneker…

Opinion

Kyndell Geddis and Crystal Smith: Why Banneker should relocate

Commentary May 28, 2019

Since 1981, Benjamin Banneker Academic High School has provided DC students with a great education. Banneker’s campus at Euclid Street and Georgia Avenue NW was originally built to serve as a junior high, but over the years it has been…

DCist: The Battle Over Banneker High School And The Shaw Middle School, Explained

Editor May 16, 2019

The D.C. Council devoted a significant portion of its daylong budget discussion on Tuesday to one plot of land: The long-closed Shaw Junior High School at 9th St. and Rhode Island Avenue NW.

City Paper: Councilmember David Grosso Loses School Renovation Debate That Divides Council

Editor May 16, 2019

Councilmembers lament that the mayor framed the issue around gentrification.

Washington Post: D.C. Council rejects mayor’s proposal to move Banneker High

Editor May 14, 2019

The D.C. Council narrowly rejected Tuesday a proposal from Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to build a new campus for an elite high school on vacant property in the booming Shaw neighborhood.

City Paper: Council Set to Vote Down Mayor in Battle Over Shaw Junior High Site

Editor May 14, 2019

Shaw residents want a new middle school, but Banneker High needs a new facility. It has become the latest fight over race and gentrification.

Washington Post: Bowser ties fate of empty school building to D.C.’s gentrification fight

Editor May 13, 2019

The mayor has made her beliefs clear: The fate of a vacant school building on prime real estate in Northwest Washington represents the latest gentrification fight in a city full of them.

WAMU: ‘They Don’t Understand’: Howard Neighbors Search For Solutions After Dog-Walking Uproar

Editor May 8, 2019

Howard University students and community residents turned out in droves for an Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 1B meeting in Shaw last week. First on the agenda was a discussion about how the historic campus can curb neighbors who…

UrbanTurf: $25,000 For Renovations: DC Offers Grants for Historic Home Repairs

Editor May 3, 2019

The recent designations of neighborhoods as historic districts in DC has come with an added benefit: grants for home repairs.

DCist: If Howard Students Don’t Like Dogs On The Yard, ‘Then Move The Campus,’ Neighbor Tells Fox 5

Editor Apr 19, 2019

Earlier this week, DCist reported on Howard University students’ frustration over the way that neighbors use The Yard at the center of campus as a place to exercise, spread out a picnic basket, or—most especially—walk their dog.

DCist: New Neighbors Keep Walking Their Dogs On Howard’s Campus. Students Say It’s Disrespectful

Editor Apr 18, 2019

The Yard at Howard University looks like a typical college campus quad: a set of criss-crossing cement paths bisecting large grassy patches, flanked by nine academic buildings and—especially when it’s nice out—teeming with college…

Washington Post: ‘A different kind of cellphone store’: Business was a D.C. staple long before…

Editor Apr 12, 2019

On the corner at the center of a battle for the District’s spirit, it’s back to business as usual.

WTOP: Go-Go battle is won in Shaw, but #DontMuteDC campaign is still a go

Editor Apr 12, 2019

A D.C. activist and entrepreneur behind the #DontMuteDC campaign held a town hall meeting to discuss other issues in the District — gentrification, rising property taxes and the loss of black churches and black-owned business, to name a…

Natalie Hopkinson in Slate: Go-Go Lives to Fight Another Day

Editor Apr 12, 2019

What a battle about loud music on a D.C. corner tells us about gentrification, race, and the life of a city.

Washington Informer: #DontMuteDC Movement Coalesces Around Famous MetroPCS Store

Editor Apr 11, 2019

For nearly a quarter-century, the MetroPCS store on the corner of Florida Avenue and 7th Street in Northwest kept residents and passersby alike jamming to the sounds of go-go, over time solidifying its status as a staple of authentic,…

Washington Times: Go-go music dispute in D.C. resolved after intervention from mayor, T-Mobile CEO

Editor Apr 10, 2019

A dispute over loud “go-go” music cranked for years from outside a cellphone store in D.C. was resolved Wednesday after attracting the attention of telecom mogul John Legere and Mayor Muriel Bowser.

WTOP: Go-go in Shaw is back on after protest, petition

Editor Apr 10, 2019

The music that has played outside a Metro PCS location in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood for 24 years is back on. The store is known among locals for playing go-go music on loud speakers during business hours, but it’s been quiet for the last…

DCist: Go-Go Music Is Back At Shaw’s Metro PCS Store

Editor Apr 10, 2019

By mid-day Wednesday, “Bustin’ Loose” was blaring out of the Shaw Metro PCS speakers, signaling that a decades-long D.C. tradition will continue.

WAMU: D.C. Public Libraries To Host Exhibitions On Neighborhood Gentrification

Editor Apr 8, 2019

Last month the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum closed on short notice for seven months of renovations. Now, its curators are disassembling its locally focused main exhibition into six parts and installing them in libraries around…

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