Emile Dennis

Emile Dennis was a 42-year-old Black woman living in Washington, D.C., moving through the tight, weathered blocks around Princeton Place NW in the summer of 1997, a neighborhood where longtime residents, open-air drug dealing, and creeping fear shared the same sidewalks. Her world was the Petworth/Park View area, a community in transition that had once been known for its stability and middle-class families but by the late 1990s was struggling with crack houses, street-level sex work, and the sen ...