- Feb 20, 2015 from 2:00pm to 5:00pm EST
- Location: NORTHEASTERN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
- Latest Activity: Jan 20, 2020
Conversation with C.R. Gibbs
D.C.'s Black History: What Gentrification Has Done to Us All These Years
Addressing Our Creeping Historical Amnesia
Away from the marble monuments on the Mall, outside the precincts of the White House and the Capitol, particularly in the African American neighborhoods that give life and character to the city, an unrelenting, decades-old process of transformation, displacement, and destruction continues.
It has wreaked havoc on the population, decimated symbols of culture and achievement, and is leading to a creeping historical amnesia concerning the black presence in the city.
Join C.R. Gibbs, author, lecturer and historian of the African Diaspora, as he investigates the beginnings of the process, provides startling examples of the personal loss that often accompanies what is far from a neutral or natural socio-economic progression, and delivers a timely prediction about the future of the nation's capital.
C.R. Gibbs, a long longtime resident of Washington, D.C., is the author or co-author of six books and a frequent national and international lecturer on an array of historical topics. He has appeared several times on the History Channel, on French and Belgian television, and he wrote, researched and narrated "Sketches in Color," a 13-part companion series to the acclaimed PBS series "The Civil War" for WHUT-TV, the Howard University television station.
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