New York residents say the Third Party Transfer program has put a harrowing effect on Black and Brown homeowners, forcing them out of their homes in favor of developers with gentrification on their minds.
Washington, D.C. has lost its only black-owned funeral parlor to gentrification, after 80 years in the district. The Hall Brothers Funeral Home only handled four funerals last year, a low caused by locals being driven out by gentrification, per NBC News. The parlor’s owner, 77-year-old Richard Ables, says of the neighborhood: “If we saw a white person, we’d […]
CHICAGO (AP) — When word spread that the Obama Presidential Center was coming to the lakefront park Tara Madison has watched through her apartment windows for a decade, she was elated at the idea of a gleaming facility honoring the president she supported and reviving rough sections of her neighborhood. Then the 52-year-old social services […]
Gentrifiers have been trying to whitewash Black communities all over the country for decades now. However, one store in Washington, D.C., has unwittingly caused an uprising and now residents in the nation’s capital are fighting back in the best way ever.
Huggy loves his hometown of Washington, DC but he doesn’t exactly love all of the changes going on at the moment. DC has the highest intensity of gentrification of anywhere in the country. Huggy says this means that the “Colonizers are doing gentrification drivebys and getting away with it.” DC used to be “chocolate city,” […]
Amazon wants to cover a Northern Virginia community in asphalt, pave over gravesites, homes, and a Civil War battleground to make way for a power plant.
Willie Morgan, who hails from Georgia, grows actual cotton in Harlem to teach children in his neighborhood about slavery.
A wave of gentrification threatens Langston Hughes' house. But a group of Black artists are battling to save the historic house.
A wave of gentrification threatens Langston Hughes' house. But a group of Black artists are battling to save the historic house.
A lawyer has come forward to claim responsibility for the “exclusively for white people” stickers posted in several Austin, Texas businesses during the city’s popular…
Melissa Harris-Perry Is Ringing The Alarm On The Supreme Court’s Decision On Fair Housing In America
The U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. case for the third time…
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