Day: May 27, 2020

As Washington D.C. Weighs Reopening, African Americans in the Nation’s Capital Brace for the Worst

May 27, 2020
It’s just past 7 a.m. as Tavis Clinton’s sanitation truck pulls to a stop in an alley in the Washington, D.C., neighborhood of Petworth, its streets lined by aging rowhouses and the occasional glass-and-metal gentrified upstart apartment complex. The 41-year-old sanitation crew chief, who like the other members of his three-man team is African American,…