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Article: NE Neighbors Cling to March Promises; Some Rosedale Residents Committed to Change Despite Obstacles
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- The Washington Post
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- October 22, 1995
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What will a million men do?
When they gathered on the Mall last week, black men from
throughout the country pledged to improve themselves and their
communities. As the euphoria of the Million Man March fades, the
value of those promises will be tested in needy Washington
neighborhoods such as Rosedale.
Two miles northeast of the Capitol, Rosedale is an erratic
landscape of the trashed and the tidy, where abandoned buildings
coexist with lovingly tended ones. In its plain row houses, small
homes and low-rise apartments, three of four children live without
their fathers. Drug dealers own several street corners, and neighbors
are too scared to confront them.
The themes of the march -- ...