Ethiopian Fasting Food, Bayenatu

Ethiopian Fasting Food, Bayenatu. (Source: Wikipedia user Jforauer. Used via Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.)

Claiming a Neighborhood: Shaw and Little Ethiopia

In 2005, Ethiopian restaurateurs led a campaign to rename a strip of Ninth Street between U and T Little Ethiopia, to reflect the contributions that Ethiopians made to the Shaw neighborhood over the previous decade.  These business leaders faced backlash, however, from Shaw’s African-American community who thought the renaming campaign discounted the neighborhood’s proud African-American history.