Black History Month: What We are Reading
One way Everyone Home DC is choosing to honor Black history (this month and every month) is to intentionally and continuously grow our knowledge of racists policies and practices that impact the creation of equitable systems and structures. Check out some of the articles, podcasts, and books that we are following below and if there is anything we are missing our should have on our radar, we are always looking to grow our library. Shoot us an email at info@everyonehomedc.org and share with us what you are reading.
- The District Still Has A Racial Homeownership Gap. For One Woman, Her Family Home Was A Lifeline from WAMU
- What Causes Homelessness, Racial Inequality from National Alliance to End Homelessness
- Slaveowners Got Reparations For Financial Loss After Emancipation. Enslaved African-Americans Got Nothing from Moguldom Nation
- How to be an Antiracist a book by Ibram X. Kendi
- On the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, Where Are We? from Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review
- ‘A Pileup of Inequities’: Why People of Color Are Hit Hardest by Homelessness from Pew Stateline
- A Vision for an Equitable DC from Urban Institute
- The Racial Segregation of American Cities Was Anything But Accidental, this Smithsonian Magazine article is from 2017 and packed with information that continues to be relevant today
- NPR’s Codeswitch is a podcast by journalists of color that covers issues on inequality and fair housing
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City a book by Mathew Desmond
