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Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Rhonda Ferguson’s Washington, Then and Now


 By Kenton Rambsy 

In Edward P. Jones’s “The Night Rhonda Ferguson Was Killed,” every stop on the girls’ route around 1960 sat in a majority Black census area, while Georgetown, the place Melanie imagines for Rhonda, was 1 percent Black. By 2020, only Anacostia, which one character associated with rural life, remained majority Black. was still majority Black.


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