Brick by Brick

Plot Summary

A prescient portrait of late-1970s Washington, D.C., that chronicles the city's creeping gentrification, the systematic expulsion of poor Black residents, and the community response in the form of the Seaton Street Project, in which tenants banded together to purchase buildings.

8.5 /10

1982

US

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Area of Conflict

poverty

displacement

urban development

gentrification

community action

woman director

racial justice