Category: Racial Justice
Meet Our Racial Equity Managers!
CAM (they/them) is a neuroexpansive, non-binary Black radical community organizer currently based in DC. CAM is excited to join the Bread for the City staff to support the advancement of Bread's mission and the current work of the Racial Equity Leadership Team. In their free time, CAM enjoys building community with their neighbors through community care and attempting to win baking competitions with friends.
STAY DC Eviction Prevention Funding Letter to Mayor Bowser
We, the undersigned 33 organizations are writing to ask you to use reserves, underspending from government agencies, and/or other funds not dedicated to help DC residents living on low incomes meet basic needs (including but not limited to affordable housing efforts) to provide eviction prevention funding. The stakes are too high to shut down our eviction prevention efforts now. We estimate the unmet need for rental arrears is approximately $74.9 million, and we ask you to identify at least this much funding to meet this need as well as the need for utility arrears which we are not able to estimate.
BFC Statement: No Camping Zones
Bread for the City joins fellow non-profit leaders in DC in requesting that the DC government halt the CARE Pilot Program and stop the creation of “no camping zones,” which are reminiscent of other types of zoning that, throughout our history, have disenfranchised, displaced, disrupted, and destroyed Black neighborhoods and communities. Housing ends homelessness. Bread for the City is opposed to the creation of “no camping zones” and the systematic clearing of encampments.
Breaking Bread: Housing Justice in DC
Join us for a previously recorded Breaking Bread conversation series on housing justice in DC, including dialogue on protecting tenants’ rights, affordable housing development and preservation, public housing redevelopment, and more.
Tell DC Council: End Homelessness and Repair Public Housing!
Housing literally saves lives—and the combination of COVID-19 and DC’s underinvestment in deeply affordable housing will undoubtedly further racial inequity.
Your Liberation is Bound to Mine: A Reflection on My Commitment to Fighting White Supremacy
What I’ve learned over the past year is that antiracism and fighting white supremacy is not an intellectual endeavor. It is an embodied, healing, lifelong journey full of mistakes, love, and discomfort. As a Jewish white woman, I wrestled with how my heritage, intergenerational trauma, and internalized antisemitism were all wrapped up in white supremacy and fighting racism. I’m writing this to reflect on my own experience in hopes that more white people will join me on an antiracist journey.
Black History Month series: Initiative 77 – Did you miss it? Watch here!
In this week’s Black History Month segment, we highlighted Initiative 77, a voter-approved ballot initiative to phase out the minimum wage exemption for tipped employees.
The DC City Council unanimously passes the REACH Act, a comprehensive racial equity bill
On November 10, 2020, the DC City Council unanimously passed the potentially transformative racial equity legislation, the REACH Act, adding its name to the growing list of cities and counties across the country seeking to use legislation to address long-standing racial disparities.
Bread for the City’s 2020 Presidential Election Statement
Bread for the City releases a statement on Joe Biden winning the presidential election.
Watch BFC Advocacy Director Aja Taylor speak on race, equity, and civil legal aid.
Bread for the City's Advocacy Director Aja Taylor did a fantastic job as a panelist on Avenues to Justice, it's a virtual fundraiser focusing on race, equity, and civil legal aid in DC. If you missed it, watch it here.