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Reclaiming Indianapolis’s Black History from Urban Roots
Today we head back to Indianapolis with the podcast Urban Roots. In the 1950s and 1960s, Ms. Jean Spears was a young mother ...
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Blakeview: New Orleans' historic Pontchartrain Park subdivision was dedicated 70 years ago
Pontchartrain Park was dedicated 70 years ago as one of the first suburban-style neighborhoods developed for African-American ...
In a Long Beach parking lot, charros put on ‘El Show de los Caballos’
Every week, a group of charros gathers in a Long Beach neighborhood next to the L.A. River before heading downtown to put on ...
How East New York became a ‘killing field’ with NYC’s most unsolved murders
This practice led to rising violent crime, and by the early ’90s, the victims were increasingly children. On July 17, 1991, Julia Parker, a popular 17-year-old high school student in East New York, ...
Los Angeles Fires Ravaged a Historic Black Neighborhood. Now Residents Wonder Who Will Return.
In Altadena, many fear that offers from speculators and the challenges of rebuilding will unravel a community of Black ...