‘Chocolate City,’ Becoming More Vanilla

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NPR aired an eight-minute feature on D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhoodon Tuesday morning. The website version was titled “D.C., Long ‘Chocolate City,’ Becoming More Vanilla” -- but even with the flavorful name, it left a bad taste in many locals’ mouths.

On the air, reporter Alex Kellogg said, “There’s major changes going on in Washington, D.C. This is a city that, in 1970, was about 71 percent black. And now it's about 53 percent black, as of 2009. … That's a city that will soon no longer be majority African-American, and a lot of the gains are in the white population that's moving in.”