How We Change the Black East Side: A Symposium

M&T Auditorium JSMBS – Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (JSMBS) Feb 26, 2024

The Harder We Run report indicated that Black Buffalo had not progressed in 30 years. Tonight, we will show you how to change this “no progress” reality of running hard but going nowhere. The most significant lesson we learned from the Harder We Run is that Black neighborhoods matter. They matter because underdeveloped neighborhoods are the primary cause of Black Buffalo’s “no progress” challenge.

The root problems of substandard rental housing, inadequate education, low wages, joblessness, poverty, wealth extraction, and poor health are inextricably tied to underdeveloped neighborhoods. Black neighborhoods matter. The evidence that Black neighborhoods play a significant role in determining their residents’ socioeconomic and health outcomes and shaping their life chances is irrefutable and based on a mountain of research and data.

Henry-Louis Taylor, Jr., February 26, 2024

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