-- Dear Marian and others: Please become acquainted with Anita Brown - who by the way, is very happy to meet new people interested in IT , especially people of color.
http://www.girlgeeks.org/innergeek/inspiringwomen/abrown.shtml Check out a short interview with her at the above site. She is an activist who got involved in spreading the word about technology after she became a grandmother and she has done so much for people in the Washington DC area who have been left behind or underserved or just getting introduced to the world of technology. She is a true DD pioneer! There is a page at her blackgeeks.net site that lists all kinds of activites and businesses owned by people of color around the DC area. Hope this helps. REgards, Susan Susan Crane-Sundell [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUCB ---- Marian Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
