The People’s Archive is proud to present Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap, an author talk with Tanya Maria Golash-Boza.

Through conversation with Niki McCombs, Tanya Maria Golash-Boza will discuss her latest book, Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap. Before Gentrification shows how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrification in Washington, DC.