Segregation - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Tue, 25 Apr 2023 20:53:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Segregation - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 How RFK Stadium Helped Integrate the NFL’s Last All-White Team https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/04/26/how-rfk-stadium-helped-integrate-the-nfls-last-all-white-team/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-rfk-stadium-helped-integrate-the-nfls-last-all-white-team Wed, 26 Apr 2023 10:58:20 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1632404 During its long history, RFK wasn’t just a venue for sports and concerts. It was also an instrument for social justice. Though Washington’s football team represented a city with a majority-Black population, in the early 1960s it was the only National Football League franchise without a single Black player on its roster. This steadfast refusal […]

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Report: Schools in the Washington Suburbs Are Far More Integrated Than Schools in DC https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/02/16/dc-schools-starkly-segregated-suburbs-arent/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dc-schools-starkly-segregated-suburbs-arent Thu, 16 Feb 2017 19:04:45 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=217282 Public schools in DC suburbs tend to be far more integrated than those within the District, according to a new report by the Civil Rights Project. DC schools remain majority black, around 67 percent, with Latinos following far behind at 16.5 percent. As more white people (millennials) move into the Chocolate City, their children–if they have any–are enrolling […]

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“The Segregation Was—What Should I Say? It Was Just So Unfair.” https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/02/14/logan-circle-mansion-segregation-dc-therrell-smith/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=logan-circle-mansion-segregation-dc-therrell-smith Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:00:48 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=217003 In Therrell Smith’s 99 years, she has lived in just two houses. The first was near Ninth and S streets in Shaw. The second is right on Logan Circle—a 5,000-square-foot mansion built in 1903 that her father bought 87 years ago. These days, Smith lives there with younger family members. She moves to wind the […]

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