Vendors from Street Sense Media wrote and staged a play exploring solutions to homelessness in early February. From left to right: Gigi Dovonou, Frederic John, Angie Whitehurst, Sheila White, Carlos Carolina, Robert Warren, Jet Flegette, Leslie Jacobson, Queenie Featherstone, and Maria Lares. Photo by Will Schick.

Written and organised by Street Sense Media vendors, a performance staged on 6 February was the culmination of six months of hard work. The show, which last for an hour and included multiple singing ensembles, examined solutions to homelessness via stories of lived experience.

Street Sense Media vendors stage play exploring solutions to homelessness

The co-chairs of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, Bishop William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. The photo was taken Dec. 13, 2021 in Washington, DC, at a Moral March on Washington. Credit: Steve Pavey/Poor People's Campaign/Repairers of the Breach/Kairos Center.

A Poor People’s March is descending on Washington, D.C. this summer. It has the potential to ignite a new progressive movement in the United States. INSP spoke to one of that movement’s leaders, pastor and activist the Reverend Dr. William Barber.

Reverend Barber and the revolutionary power of poor people

 Vendor’s Lounge, where she often writes. Photo by Annemarie Cuccia.

Nikki Smith, who moved to Washington DC earlier this year, is already making an impact with her art and advocacy. She moved from a tent to a shelter and has been working on her writing which is now being published in the local street paper Street Sense. And she’s working with an initiative to help women experiencing homelessness become involved in advocacy like her. 

Washington DC street paper vendor Nikki Smith on helping others — and herself

Thousands of demonstrators gathered at the Bans Off Our Bodies protest in downtown D.C. on May 14. Credit: Kaela Roeder.

As the US repeals Roe v. Wade and rolls back abortion rights, Washington DC street paper Street Sense covers what effect this will have on those on the margins, highlighting the already significant barriers that poor people have to obtaining healthcare, especially those seeking an abortion.

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Street Sense Media vendors stage play exploring solutions to homelessness

Reverend Barber and the revolutionary power of poor people

Washington DC street paper vendor Nikki Smith on helping others — and herself

For people living in poverty, getting an abortion was already hard. It’s about to get harder