On April 6, 2020, the D.C. Policy Center’s article, Goodbye to Chocolate City, was cited by American Renaissance:
By the time he died, Marion Barry was a relic, because after 2000, the city began gentrifying. Whites returned. Crime dropped. Property values rose. Journalists, of course, mourned:
- “D.C., Long ‘Chocolate City,’ Becoming More Vanilla,” NPR, February 15, 2011
- “A Population Changes, Uneasily,” by Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times, July 17, 2011
- “From Chocolate City to Latte City: Being black in the new D.C.,” by Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, October 15, 2015
- “Goodbye to Chocolate City,” by David Rusk, DC Policy Center, July 20, 2017
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