This historically working-class neighborhood in Southwest Washington, D.C., was once the suburb of Uniontown. Anacostia is the poorest neighborhood in the nation’s capital and its first historical suburb. According to the Brookings Institution, in 2000, one-fourth of D.C.’s poor — most of them black — lived in “extreme poverty” neighborhoods, east of the Anacostia River. Two-fifths of the people in these neighborhoods lived below the federal poverty line.

It is now a community in the throes of change, thanks to a new development initiative on the waterfront of the Anacostia River and the grand opening of the new Washington Nationals baseball stadium just across the river.

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