Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Guest Host: Michael Schaffer
2600 and 2700 block of Columbia Pike at night.
The Washington metro region has been called “the world in a zip code” and nowhere is this description more apt than Arlington’s Columbia Pike. This historic corridor, which runs roughly between the Pentagon and Annandale, is home to more than 130 nationalities, many of whom moved into this region in the late 1970s. But like other urban neighborhoods in the region, development and housing pressures are changing “the Pike.” With an eye toward preserving the colorful complexity of this neighborhood for the history books, five area photographers spent more than a decade capturing life on the Pike. We explore this community with the chief photographer of the “Columbia Pike Documentary Project” and learn more about why the Pike typifies the changes in many American neighborhoods.
Guests
- Audrey Singer Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
- Takis Karantonis Executive Director, Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization
- Lloyd Wolf Photographer, Author, "Living Diversity: The Columbia Pike Documentary Project"
Photos from 'Living Diversity'
Men on street during a snowstorm on Dec. 19, 2009.
Meng K Taing is the proprietor of Oriental Supermarket in Arlington, Va.
2600 and 2700 block of Columbia Pike at night.
Prio Bangla's Bangladeshi street fair.
Achmed Osman is a Sudanese refugee who teaches computer classes at Arlington Mill Center off Columbia Pike in Arlington, Va.
Bob and Edith's Diner at 2310 Columbia Pike, Arlington Va.
Justin and Dahlia Constantine in Arlington, Va.
Mother and child at an Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing event.
Inside the Arlington Mill demolition. Photo by Duy Tran.
Cambodian-American Heritage Dance Troupe at Prio Bangla street in Arlington, Va.
The Bolivianao Oruru Carnival is a Bolivian Dance Parade with 32 local Bolivian dance troupes- along S. Four Mile Run Drive in Arlington, Va.
Mekbib Gebertsadik is an Ethiopian immigrant. Here, he is posing with his artwork in Arlington, Va.
Mary Nablusi- a Sudanese-Syrian Christian woman. She is retired and volunteers with the elderly women's arts and crafts group, Harvey Hall Community Center in Arlington, Va.
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