A News March 17 editorial stated that “housing is an urgent need.” A key element of this need is facilitating the transformation of the East Side into a thriving community of neighborhoods by implementing an...
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...
Beth Kwiatek & Henry-Louis Taylor September 11, 2023 How should we remember 9/11? It is a day for remembering and honoring. It is a day for learning lessons from the past. It...
People should be very concerned about the impact this might have on Chinese-Americans and all other Asian-American, Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. and Beth Kwiatek, May 2, 2023 Tension between the United States and China...
By Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. The causes of Black-on-Black violence are not really complicated. It results from under resourced and inadequate schools, limited recreational activities, substandard housing, rent and price gouging, dilapidated physical environments,...
Buffalo is one of the most segregated urban centers in the United States, and the high concentration of Black people on the East Side is what attracted a racist killer to the “City of Good Neighbors”...
While Buffalo, New York, isn’t exactly a stone’s throw away from Knoxville, you can’t convince Professor Henry Louis Taylor that the plight of Black communities isn’t the same in both places Angela Dennis October 26, 2022...
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“I was shocked, not surprised,” said Dr. Henry Taylor, the director for the Center of Urban Studies at the University at Buffalo, about the verdict of Kyle Rittenhouse.
Race was one of the central issues in last year’s protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Friday’s verdict had Taylor thinking about race once again.
By Mark Scheer
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In 1990, researchers at the University at Buffalo took a comprehensive look at what it was like to be Black and living in Buffalo. They found large numbers of African Americans were out of work, living in poverty, lacked a college degree and were renters rather than homeowners. The report predicted that the “downward trend” for the city’s Black population would continue unless an action plan was put in place to halt the decline. The “portrait of Black Buffalo remains unchanged” more than 30 years later, a follow-up study released this week has found. The report concluded that Black Buffalonians “have not made progress over the past thirty-one years.” The problems are actually getting worse on the city’s predominantly Black East Side, researchers found. “We have to do something different and, if we don’t, 31 years from now it will be the same way,” said Dr. Henry Taylor Jr., the study’s lead researcher and director of UB’s Center for Urban Studies.
By Henry-Louis Taylor, Jr.
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This evening my presentation focuses on the enduring significance of racial residential segregation and its relationship to the underdevelopment of Black communities. It consists of two parts. The first part examines the interaction among land valuation, racial residential segregation, and the underdevelopment of Black neighborhoods. The second part focuses on intervention and strategies for developing Black communities while simultaneously dismantling racial residential segregation.