A Black family’s home was too close to a white school. So D.C. took it.

Jocelind Julien stood in a wooded park in a stony part of D.C.’s Chevy Chase neighborhood. Nearby, children were playing and two men walked golden retrievers past her.

“This is where my family’s house was,” Julien said, “looking out over the hill.”

Her family had .38 acres of land and a house on Broad Branch Road in Northwest Washington. In the spot where it once stood is now a basketball court.

Read the complete article in The Philadelphia Tribune