..Sociology in My Neighborhood: DC Ward Six

This past summer, the Hill Rag informed readers that they could " Volunteer to Restore Mondrian-Style Murals Saturday ." The mural...

Yesterday I was reading the oral history of John Harrod , who directed the Market 5 Gallery, a community art space in the North Hall of East...

Today I came across an article by several amazing sociologists -- Marcus Anthony Hunter , Mary Pattillo , and Zandria F. Robinson (Georgeto...

On April 3, 1975, Gilda Warnick, Rosetta Byrd, and Marianne Josem of the Capitol East Housing Coalition testified in front of the DC Council...

 Yesterday, I read a very interesting book review by Petal Samuel in Public Books , one of my favorite sites for reviews of academic books....

Back in 2011, I visited Brazil, which was so wonderful and interesting. In a blog post at that time, I looked at its notoriously high Gin...

Today Washington, D.C., seems like a terrain of hyper-gentrification and widespread displacement. Yet D.C. has also been and continues to ...