LeDroit Park | DC Neighborhoods

Longtime residents of LeDroit Park in Northwest Washington discuss the changes they have witnessed in their neighborhood. Once the home to Black intellectuals like Mary Church Terrell, Anna J. Cooper, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, the community saw the influx of drugs and crime in the 1980s. More recently, the community has rebounded but grapples with the impacts of gentrification.
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[@miriamernest6238]

Awesome and very informative video. Thank you for this!

[@WETAPBS]

Thank you for watching!

[@seanleftwich]

It’s a horrible area I grew up there since 97, they nos showing the homeless, and the crack head people who sit in a circle and smoke all night, they’re not showing a couple of blocks down the street the apartment building, so I grew up with all the drugs are sold, and they can be seen right from the circle

[@DMVHOODZNDNEWZ]

They was not smoking crack in the circle you wellin Lmaooooo i been around there since 96-98 .