Opinion | How D.C. residents are fighting to preserve black history in a gentrifying city

The redevelopment of Barry Farm, a low income Washington, D.C. neighborhood, is erasing the city's rich black history and the people who grew out of it, former residents say. They want the community to be recognized as a historic landmark.

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