Tony Gittens, who was features editor of the Howard University newspaper during the riots, says the memories of those days on 14th Street are still with him. Now director of Filmfest DC, he remembers the first time he saw a white woman jogging in the neighborhood after dark. It was 2007, and he was working for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in an office at 14th and Harvard.
“I’m saying, ‘What is she doing?’ And then I realized the whole riot thing was not part of her experience. It’s in my DNA. It’s not in theirs.”
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