Deanwood News

Here at the Riverside Recreation Center in the Deanwood neighborhood of Ward 7, Ricky McNeill, Michael Samuels and Vernon Peterson are primed on documentary filmmaking 101.

On Saturday, 100 artists and more than a dozen pop-up spaces will inaugurate a series of creative spaces in the commercial corridor of historic Anacostia.

Let me take you back to that day in 1986 when the Rev. Willie Wilson of the Union Temple Baptist Church led a protest against an Asian market owner who had supposedly disrespected an African-American customer.