Reginald Black

Reggie Black is an artist and vendor for Street Sense Media.

Articles by Reginald

• Stop the encampment clearings, now

• What Love Is

• Public Housing Budget

• Global coronavirus pandemic could help the homeless or hurt them more

• Homeless people were left out of the conversation about homelessness in NoMa

• Golden Haikus

• Beats - Episodes 1 and 2

• National nonprofit provides pandemic-specific recommendations for protecting the homeless community

• While DHS works to shelter and quarantine homeless residents, housing referrals have been put on hold

• Five shelter residents have tested positive for COVID-19, DHS says

• Statement of Our Country

• Poor people stand up: National campaign to build community and spark change stops in DC

• The media doesn't care

• Where Are We?

• Tents banned from K Street underpass in NoMa after a final clean-up

• People experiencing homelessness can transform homeless services if given the chance

• The "Value" Trap

• DC attorney general focusing more on environmental issues

• Don't give in to the hype

• Street Sense vendors react to downtown bench removal

• Together We Rise

• Franklin Square Park will close for renovations this fall

• Racial equity and homelessness

• Human Rights Alliance to review the possibility of human rights in America

• Housing authorities nationwide are creating innovative approaches to end homelessness

• The credit belongs to the community

• Who pays the price?

• Protest at mayor's housing expo reveals tensions and frustrations

• Our right to healthy food

• The unspoken demands of shelter life

• Happy Father's Day!

• Home

• Residents in Ward 3 seek to understand homeless services

• At youth climate strike rally, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar calls for a budget to end homelessness 

• To Give or Not to Give

• Street Sense Media artists visit Touchstone Gallery

• The city should use its land for its people 

• Winter

• It shouldn't be this hard to recover from homelessness

• Activists visit DC Council to reiterate their Comprehensive Plan priorities

• The first three DC General replacement shelters open

• Scary

• Still Marching: Grassroots organizers held mass meeting to grapple with poverty

• Sounds / Silence

• Homelessness: A Call to Early Death

• Protesters call on Bowser to denounce ICE raid

• One man’s journey through 19 years experiencing homelessness

• Independence

• Maxine Waters: "It's going to be expensive to end homelessness. Let's put a price on it."

• Our fathers' duty

• Early perspectives from Dems for DC Council

• Kaiser Permanente just joined the U.S. Mayors and CEOs coalition and pledged $200 million for housing security

• Rapid rehousing clients decry program and ask for pathways to employment

• We’re all in the working class

• Our time

• Subsidies are important to afford housing

• All DC's 8 wards must focus on housing

• Cold Society

• U.S. mayors and CEOs commit to funding more affordable housing

• March together, build together

• Advocates talk universal housing at Woolly Mammoth

• 12th annual MLK Peace Walk and Parade Ends at Barry Farm

• District agencies re-examine efforts to employ homeless people

• Vacant to Vibrant?

• One more life

• Why does hardship still exist?

• Congress Heights and Brookland Manor residents take displacement fears to the Wilson Building

• Making the walk

• 'Home for the holidays' campaign aims to house 400 D.C. families and individuals by January

• Labor organizers say DREAMers should be allowed to stay

• DC officials reach out to private landlords for help to end homelessness

• Attacking poverty through me

• What it truly means to share

• S2J Conference: Ex-Offenders Are Making a Difference

• Service To Justice Conference Provides a Seat at the Table

• The MLK Mural Will Return. Will The Homeless?

• Street Sense Vendors Cover the 2017 Conerence on Ending Homelessness

• Community Envisions a Right to Housing

• All Kinds of People

• Siting a Service Center That Makes a Statement

• City Reaffirms Need for Downtown Service Center

• Pushed Out

• McMillan: What's Happening and Why

• DC Has Insufficient Shelter Capacity for Women

• The Broken

• Build Communities, Not Ghettos

• The Place I Saw

• DC Agency Discusses Lack of Employment Services for Homeless

• New Legislation Welcomed by Public Housing Advocates

• Certainty

• CCNV Residents Say They Need Case Management and Accountability More than Anything

• Interagency Council on Homelessness Reports Back on Homeward D.C. Progress

• Dick Wolf Memorial Lecture Continues Public Housing Debate

• LAST WORD: Advocate with Us

• 🎧 Sounds From the Street: Advocate Kate Coventry on the D.C. Winter Plan

• New Shelter for Women to Open in Chinatown

• Public Housing Development Fears Recognized by D.C. Council

• United Nations Stands Against Gentrification

• Activists Say Bowser's Crime Bill Must "Go-Go"

• Community Launches "Homelessness Eradication" Movement

• Reggie's Reflection: What I Have Learned

• Friday, December 18: Demonstrators Take The Wilson Building

• P-A-I-N

• You Are Appreciated

• Last Word: If You Save One Life, You Save the World

• LIVE: National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day 2015

• The Progress Thus Far

• What Does it Take to End Poverty?

• Identifying the Benefit of Peer Counselors

• Community Weighs in on New Plan to End District Homelessness

• The Way Home Visits Council Members

• 📹 Fairness Rising

• Luck of the Dice: The Ward 8 Special Election

• DMV Area Assesses Itself

• New Plan

• Advocate's Notebook

• The Meaning of "Home"

• Southeast: The Final Frontier

• D.C. Council and Community Unite to Tackle Homelessness

• #IHaveADream: Art as intervention

• Bowser Talks the Talk

• Progress for Housing

• Everyone In D.C. has a Marion Barry Story

• The Changing of the Guard

• Will Voters Stand Up and Be Counted?

• Determining the future of one of the largest shelters in the country

• Bill to Shape Future of CCNV Gets Hearing

• R-E-I-G-N

• CCNV Task Force Begins to Wind Down

• Winding Road

• What is Truth?

• Advocates in Full Voice at Hearing

• Economic Discrimination and Profiling in DC?

• Two Cents: New Interagency Council on Homelessness Director Announced

• We Spend It Anyway

• Tale of Two Cities

• This Is Not What We Planned: Dangerous Gaps in the Winter Plan

• Hopes and Anxiety Mark Deliberations Over CCNV's Future

• United Black History

• CCNV Task Force Mulls Future of Historic Shelter

• Neighborhood Activists Want Voice in New Projects

• CCNV Task Force Continues to Deliberate

• Inner-City Music

• Are Holidays Helpful?

• Board of Elections

• Assisting Homeless Singles

• Marchers Remembers the Dead and Fight for the Living

• My Quest to End Homelessness, Phase 1

• A Small Act of Kindness

• The National Mental Health Dialogue Comes Home

• Giving the Community a Voice

• A Simple Request

• Answers

• Housing is my right

• What Do We Want? Change!

• Timeline: The Federal City Shelter, 1940s - 2021

• Witness to History: Activists redefined America's Response to Homelessness

• Exploring the Future Mission of the Shelter Called CCNV

• REGGIE’S REFLECTIONS: The Alliance

• Shelter at St. Elizabeths Faces Uncertain Future

• What Will Happen to the CCNV?

• Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development

• Service Spotlight: Mercy Ministries

• Elks Lodge

• HSRA Amendments Just Won’t Die...

• Provisions Have Witnesses Deeply Divided

• The Fight Goes On

• Budget Season has Advocates in High Gear

• Keep the Promise

• District Closes Waiting List for New Applicants

• Panel Looks at Family Homelessness

• I Am a Voter!

• DC’s Sacred Heart is Broken

• 540...A Number to Live By

• A New Leader

• Unification Needed in Washington

• Housing Woes

• Gray Skies

• New Beginnings

• Writer's Group (05.26.2010)

• Writer's Group (05.12.2010)

• Writer's Group (04.28.2010)

• Writer's Group (04.14.2010)

• Writer's Group (03.31.2010)

• Writer's Group (03.17.2010)

• National Prayer Breakfast Features Obama, Tebow

• Writer's Group (03.03.2010)

• Writer’s Group (02.17.2010)

• Writer's Group (02.03.2010)

• Who I Write For

• The Next, “I Have a Dream.”

• Resolve to End

• Homeless Vigil Honors the Fallen Homeless

• Sounds of Hope Ring for Street Sense

• Reggie’s Reflections – Good for Me???? 

• One Essential 

• Reggie’s Reflections: Cheating Crime

• Surviving Winter

• Residents Protest DC Budget Cuts

• We are Different 

• Reggie’s Reflections – Intruder!!!!

• Our Nations History

• Reggie’s Reflections – New Day!!!!

• Reggie’s Reflections – In Review

• Prison of Disenfranchisement

• Revival

• Reggie’s Reflections: Copy Cat??

• Reggie’s Reflections: Heart Broken 

• Water Life Giving Water

• Supporters Rally for Private School Scholarships Program

• The Last Word: Looking Back and Growing Up

• Reggie’s Reflections: Changes??!!

• The Last Weekend in May

• “Soloist” Critiques from the Street

• Reggie’s Reflections: Used

• May Days of Youth

• Cherry Blossoms - and Memories - on Parade

• Reggie’s Reflections: Horrible A.M.

• What a Thought

• Reggie’s Reflections: The Angels?

• Milk Mistake

• GW Poetry Slam

• Reggie’s Reflection’s: Dreadful Night

• Beautiful Planet

• The Potter’s House Hosts “Sounds of Hope” Open Mic Night

• Reggie’s Reflections: Revelations

• Pagan Patrick?

• Reggie’s Reflections – Follower

• Sharon Pratt Dixon Kelly

• Street Politics: Trying to Find the Right Formula for Change

• Sgt. William H. Carney – A Young Man Who Won Glory

• Words of Love

• Reggie’s Reflections: In Review 

• Inauguration Special

• Reggie’s Reflections: A Premonition

• Writer’s Group (01.07.2009)

• Letters to Obama