Anacostia Community Museum
Community museum spotlighting neighborhood activism, food justice, and everyday African American life in Southeast Washington.
This guide to the Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, D.C. traces a question about neighborhood food access back to the 1960s, when Vivian Williams organized boycotts against grocers who rigged scales and overcharged Black customers in Southeast Washington. It follows her colleague Beatrice Gray's buying clubs, which grew into a cooperative grocery inside a public housing community, and the young pastor John Kinard who opened this museum letting local teenagers help choose its exhibits. Listen for how a red steel fork outside on the plaza connects to that same history.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.