She’s drawing connections between a host of indicators at the intersection of internet availability, environmental risk, and historical racial inequity. Sanders, an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University, isn’t just checking Wi-Fi speeds. But these speeds fail to meet the Federal Communications Commission’s minimum to qualify as broadband service, despite the multiple free municipal Wi-Fi access spots in the area. The readings flutter between single and double digits before settling on a final result: 10.8 megabits per second (Mbps) download and 8.23 Mbps upload. Facing the property, she holds her iPhone out to measure Wi-Fi speeds. It is one of Monica Sanders’s final stops on an overcast December afternoon. The abolitionist leader’s former home sits serenely atop a grassy hill in the otherwise bustling neighborhood. The Wi-Fi signal is weak outside the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in Anacostia, a historic African-American section of Washington, DC.
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