Dear Ward 8 Residents, 

The election results are in and DC residents have spoken. I congratulate all the winners and those who fell short but ran a great race. It is a challenging journey running a political campaign. I commend everyone that stepped into the race to make this city better. Your efforts and sacrifice do not go unnoticed.  

Additionally, I appreciate the residents who participated in the democratic process—your votes matter. However, just 20% of registered Ward 8 voters came out to vote. Residents must participate in selecting leaders that represent their ideas, vision, and interests for this city. I encourage more residents to participate in the voting process by either taking advantage of in-person voting or voting by mail.

Again, congratulations to all who participated in the mid-term election. I look forward to working with everyone because it will take all of us to move the city forward. 

In solidarity, 

Trayon White, Sr.
Councilmember, Ward 8

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The Good Hope Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. cross in Anacostia, a district in Washington, D.C. (Photo: picture alliance via Getty Images)

Gentrification is not a fast death. It’s a slow warming over that works its way into the body. There is a discovery that things have changed and then a new kind of normal. One day it’s a corner store, the next it’s an organic-hot-yoga-dim-sum communal space for people who don’t look like you. 

Chocolate City wants to remember one of their own — but there has been pushback from interlopers who want a voice in the naming of things. Because that’s the other side of Columbusing an area: it’s not just pillaging the land, it’s changing it entirely. In Washington, D.C., that’s playing out in the fight to rename Good Hope Road in honor of famed Mayor Marion Barry Jr.

It’s a new front in the war on race and public memory. A bizarre rhetorical battle is raging between Phil Mendelson, the Chair of the Council of the District of Columbia, who is white, and Councilmember Trayon White, who is Black and represents Ward 8, the Blackest ward in this gentrifying city.