'Gentrification Kills': Confronted by the Writing on the Wall

By Kierra Jackson
Jul 14, 2010
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Every morning I walk to my job -- from my neighborhood that sits on a hill along the edge of Howard University's campus into the heart of Columbia Heights.

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