Henry Taylor September 12, 2022 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...
Claretta Bellamy December 1, 2022 The historic Fruit Belt neighborhood on Buffalo’s East Side, with its Grape, Peach and Lemon streets, was once thriving. Yet now, in place of the orchards that once gave...
DaQuan Lawrence November 9, 2022 President of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW), Dr. Ron Daniels, met with The Hilltop to discuss national and world politics, the importance of African Americans...
Amanda Abrams September 16, 2022 Buncombe County in North Carolina was one of the first places in the U.S. to support reparations for Black residents. So why is the county not doing a better job...
By Angela Dennis October 26, 2022 Knoxville News Sentinel 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...
By Erica Canes
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The language of identity is important but can also be used to erase those who should be lifted up.
By Willow Lung-Amam and Nohely Alvarez
Read the full article from *CityLab, here.
The Biden administration has focused on homeownership in its attempts to address U.S. racial wealth disparities. There’s another kind of real estate that can help build wealth for small business owners.
By Elie Mystal
Read the full article from The Nation here.
“[I]f we ignore the structural changes, the hard changes, the necessary changes, we will be back here. We will not break the cycle of violence against people of color or the polarization over whether our lives matter. It is literally already too late for Floyd to be the last unarmed Black man to be murdered by criminal police action. It is already too late for this time to be the last time the country is divided over whether a cop should be held accountable for their actions.”
By Will Stancil
Read the full article from The Atlantic here.
“In some respects, segregation is even more harmful in the suburbs than in major cities, which typically have a larger industrial and commercial tax base that allows them to weather crises and sustain public services. On average, predominantly nonwhite suburbs have the lowest per capita tax base of any community type in a major metropolitan area—about 25 percent less than major cities, and about 40 percent less than predominantly white suburbs.”
