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. [...]
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