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Brick by Brick (1982)

Brick by Brick (1982)

Documentary
Release Date: 1982, January 1
Directors: Shirikiana Aina
Countries: United States of America
Production: UCLA School of Film and Television, UCLA School of Film and Television
Cast: Lester Wakefield

Overview:

A prescient portrait of late-1970s Washington, D.C., that chronicles the city's creeping gentrification, the systematic expulsion of poor Black residents, and the community response in the form of the Seaton Street Project, in which tenants banded together to purchase buildings.

Keywords:

woman director displacement poverty gentrification urban development community action racial justice