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Ward 5: Current Trends in Demographic Disparities

Eight wards make up the District of Columbia (D.C.). Of these, wards 5, 7, and 8 are routinely considered the most underserved. Compared to their wealthier neighbors hailing from Wards 2 and 3, residents of Ward 5, 7, and 8 tend to have lower median household incomes and struggle with greater barriers to access to a wide range of services. 

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The District’s Rose-Tinted Spring: Nothing Stops the Cherry Blossoms

Oh, to be assigned the dreamy task of announcing when the rose-tinted cherry blossoms of D.C. will be at their fullest. The “peak bloom date” is the estimated time when 70% of the District’s cherry trees will burst into flowers. This year, it’s expected to happen between the 2nd and 5th of April, straddling Easter weekend. After

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Wards 5, 7, and 8 – DC\’s Most Undeserved but for How Much Longer?

Any conversation about income disparity, affordable housing, food deserts, or high infant mortality usually centers around three wards; 5, 7, and 8. It\’s said with such frequency and flippancy that it belies the true impact to the quarter of a million residents in those 3 wards. That\’s over 35% of DC residents that live in

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Wards 5, 7, and 8 – DC\’s Most Undeserved but for How Much Longer?

Any conversation about income disparity, affordable housing, food deserts, or high infant mortality usually centers around three wards; 5, 7, and 8. It\’s said with such frequency and flippancy that it belies the true impact to the quarter of a million residents in those 3 wards. That\’s over 35% of DC residents that live in

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Wards 5, 7, and 8 – DC\’s Most Undeserved but for How Much Longer?

Any conversation about income disparity, affordable housing, food deserts, or high infant mortality usually centers around three wards; 5, 7, and 8. It\’s said with such frequency and flippancy that it belies the true impact to the quarter of a million residents in those 3 wards. That\’s over 35% of DC residents that live in

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Bloody Sunday – March 7, 1965; We\’re Still Crossing That Bridge

Sunday, March 7th marks fifty-six years to the day when Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), led a group of Civil Rights marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were stopped by 150 Alabama state troopers, sheriffs deputies, and possemen, who

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Bloody Sunday – March 7, 1965; We\’re Still Crossing That Bridge

Sunday, March 7th marks fifty-six years to the day when Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), led a group of Civil Rights marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were stopped by 150 Alabama state troopers, sheriffs deputies, and possemen, who

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Bloody Sunday – March 7, 1965; We\’re Still Crossing That Bridge

Sunday, March 7th marks fifty-six years to the day when Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), led a group of Civil Rights marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were stopped by 150 Alabama state troopers, sheriffs deputies, and possemen, who

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