Great piece by Roberta Gratz on the making of #PonchartrainPark in #NewOrleans . #Redlining #BlackMiddleClass #GIBill #Edith &EdgarStern #TerenceBlanchard #GwenThompkins Wendell Pierce bit.ly/3IqtUcf

Join us Georgia Tech School of History and Sociology today (2/12) at 4pm to hear Prof. Tyina Steptoe talk on 'The Sound of Migration: Black Music and Western Movement,' virtually or in person: hsoc.gatech.edu/speaker-series

Luckerson told The Black Wall St. Times the damage urban renewal perpetrated against Greenwood is “a tale almost as old as mob violence, and one that deserves the same level of scrutiny as what happened in 1921.”
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Mapping Inequality has a cache of new maps and we are hiring people to write essays on those cities! Historians, planners, housing advocates -- if you are interested in writing on one of these cities, please let us know: docs.google.com/document/d/19L…

Movie Theaters, the Urban North, and Policing the Color Line aaihs.org/movie-theaters… via Black Perspectives

Black entrepreneur Charles E. Davis built around 500 homes to meet the needs of Pittsburgh’s Black middle class! During a time of rampant discrimination, Charles’ developments quickly turned into thriving Black communities. His work is still felt today! nextpittsburgh.com/city-design/ch…

Mother Randle's special day comes as the world waits for Oklahoma Supreme Court's next move.

The Court has no set schedule to respond. Supporters of the 109-year-old Tulsa Race Massacre survivors can only hope it rules as soon as possible. bit.ly/3SAVQAs

Located on Cleveland’s southeast side, many of the streets in what some have called “the suburbs in the city” are lined with bungalows, many owned by life-long residents. Read the final installment of our series exploring Cleveland's neighborhoods: cleveland.com/news/2023/10/l…

.Robert Nelson previewing the new Mapping Inequality interface on a #UHA2023 panel about mapping & #reparations w/ Njaimeh Nije, Rev. Dale B. Snyder, LaDale Winling, Brent Cebul & Thomas Sugrue

TUESDAY (10/17): Victor Luckerson at Georgia Tech on his book about Tulsa's Greenwood aka #BlackWallStreet before and after the 1921 Race Massacre; on panel with me & @[email protected], sponsored by Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business's DEI book club, Net Impact chapter, Sustainable Business. Signup: scheller.gatech.edu/events/2023/bu…

💣🔥Tulsa Race Massacre reparations: State studies proposals
“I would be open to it,” Republican Chair of the committee Rep. Kevin West said when asked if he would begin conversations in the legislature on the reparations proposals.
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Dear friends -- the URichmond DSL team is preparing the new Mapping Inequality site for launch this fall, but there is still time to write an introductory essay on cities. We have Queens and the Bronx still available, Indianapolis, and several smaller cities! docs.google.com/document/d/1Eh…

A local, collaborative project called Green Book Cleveland highlights Northeast Ohio’s historic relationship between race, segregation and access to the outdoors during the Jim Crow Era to ensure the region's Black history is not forgotten. Read more here: ideastream.org/environment-en…

“(re)Defining History: Uncovering The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre,” a new documentary film exploring the truth behind the massacre and how the Black community responded wabe.org/1906/

'Across Southern CA, freeways that paved over Black and Latino neighborhoods—such as the 5, 10 & 110—were completed, while those proposed to cross whiter, more affluent areas were stopped,' writes Los Angeles Times. The 110, seen here, cut through South LA, displacing tens of thousands.

Great job Georgia Tech Library and Clough Commons in mounting this window into the history of #ATL 's Fulton Bag &Cotton Mill, whose records we hold in the GT Archives. On display thru March 2024; more info: library.gatech.edu/news/now-throu…

Join us in congratulating our Todd Michney for winning UHA’s 2023 Arnold Hirsch Award for Best Article in a Scholarly Journal: 'How the City Survey’s Redlining Maps were Made: A Closer Look at HOLC’s Mortgagee Rehabilitation Division' bit.ly/45RVPMw

In an effort to educate the community about this rich history and to help raise funds to support some of the all-Black towns that remain, visitors can register to cruise through Tullahassee, Redbird and Taft.
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