Rev. Oliver "OJ" Johnson

A community organizer and activist in Washington, DC's Ward 8 for more than four decades and former campaign organizer for Mayor Walter Washington and early Barry campaigns, says Marion Barry's death has made"Ward 8 a political battlefield. We are witnessing a Civil War, brother against brother, family against family."
I had the privilege to meet Rev. Johnson December 9, 2017, at the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Community Conference, and discovered we have so much in common be it Ceder Gardens - Douglass Dwellings, Anacostia, Good Hope Road, and the Anacostia Community as a whole. His most memorable words: "Know where you come from."
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