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Chocolate City

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Washington, D.C. earned the nickname "Chocolate City" decades ago for its Black majority, a distinction the city is now losing as property prices climb and long-time residents get pushed out. Filmmakers Sam Wild and Ellie Walton follow that shift through the people living it: families weighing whether to sell, neighbors watching new developments and new neighbors arrive on streets they have known for generations, and residents describing what it means to be edged out of the capital of the country whose politics they have shaped for so long. The camera stays close to individual households rather than officials or statistics, letting the change register as something happening to specific people on specific blocks rather than an abstract housing trend. Gentrification here is not a headline but a slow, visible turnover, block by block, and the film treats the loss of a Black-majority capital as a story still in progress rather than one already finished.