Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Rock Creek Baptist Church in Petworth.
Washington’s African American population dipped below fifty percent in 2011. This downward population trend, coupled with rapidly rising home prices, has created challenges for the District’s predominantly black churches. With gentrification driving many long-time congregants out of the city, churches are contending with dwindling membership and tensions with their rapidly changing communities that no longer reflect their congregations. While some churches have embarked on an exodus to the suburbs, others say they are determined to stay in the city. Kojo explores why some faith communities stay while some go, and how gentrification is affecting the city’s predominantly black churches.
Guests
- Hamil Harris Journalist; Professor, Morgan State University School of Global Journalism and Communications; @HamilHarris
- Terry Lynch Executive Director, Downtown Cluster of Congregations
- Oran Young Reverend, First Rising Mount Zion Baptist Church
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