Thread by @DMVBlackLives

Non-Black folks in #DC, if you’re making New Years resolutions add making a commitment to learn about and share widely the DC outside of the existence of monuments (many built by enslaved Africans), the White House, and Congress.

#BlackDC #ChocolateCity

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Suggested Reading: Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

Please buy from @MahoganyBooks a Black owned bookstore in our neighborhood!

#BlackDC #ChocolateCity

mahoganybooks.com/9781469654720

The @DCHistory Center is also a good resource.

#BlackDC #ChocolateCity

dchistory.org

However, nothing is more important than hearing from DC folks directly.

“The Nine Lives of Marion Barry” will correct everything you think you know about DC’s Mayor for Life, and why his life and work are no joke.

#BlackDC #ChocolateCity

He began as a sharecropper with his family, later earned a Masters Degree in Organic Chemistry at Fisk, and led powerful political movements in DC.

Specifically, police violence as documented in “The People and the Police”.

#BlackDC #ChocolateCity

We’re often asked why we don’t believe community policing will work if we haven’t tried. The truth is it’s been tried over and over. It has never worked and it never will.

Mayor Barry tried to make it work. #BlackDC #ChocolateCity

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The @DCHistory Center has gathered tons of information on the very long history of Police Brutality and Reform in DC.

Check it out!
#BlackDC #ChocolateCity

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That’s all for right now. There is so much more #BlackDC and #ChocolateCity to uncover and explore like the history of:

#MutualAid
Black Liberation
Labor
Housing
Education
Black Broadway
Resistance and Repression
Home Rule

So follow us and these hashtags for more in 2022!