A. Carvin wrote: "... the producers of the show contacted her after I put out a call on DDN and WWWEDU for DC-area community bloggers. ..."
Is there a digital divide perspective on the growing displacement of Black Americans from some major U.S. cities such as Washington, DC? I am a native of Washington, DC and I would appreciate suggestions on finding places here in the District which offer training in alternative media skills. Regarding the digital divide I'd also like to find other people in the DC/VA/Maryland area who are equally concerned about the drastic displacement of Washington, DC's Black majority population from their places of residence and from their city. Though it's nature and history are almost never honestly portrayed, Washington, DC is a southern U.S. city. It is located well south of the Mason-Dixon Line which divides Maryland from southern Pennsylvania north of Baltimore, Maryland. During enslavement the Mason-Dixon Line divided Blacks who (finally) had become free in the U.S. North (which also had slavery early on) from those in the slaveholding South. Washington, DC - including the U.S. Capitol building - was built on urban, enslaved Black labor. Washington's famous Georgetown neighborhood once was Black, as was Foggy Bottom and the rest of Southwest DC. The city still has a majority Black American population but they are rapidly being more and more marginalised both spatially and economically. Black Washington is made up of an economic range of citizens and families from middle-middle, lower middle/working, and low- and fixed-income classes, to upper-middle class and a very, very few who may be wealthy, although almost none are so from inherited wealth. Marian Douglas Marian's Blog http://marian.typepad.com _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
