Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, Virginia, seized the core of a thriving Black community to build a college. The school has been gobbling up the remaining houses ever since.
  • Lifted_lowered@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Good article. The crimes that were done against black communities to make the white boomer lifestyle possible need to be laid out, even if nobody who did this saw accountability during their lifetimes, reparations should be made. Within my parent’s lifetimes, apartheid was the law in the USA. We haven’t even begun to truly account for what happened.

  • eleanor@social.hamington.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I live close to CNU and never knew this. I probably should have assumed something like this happened considering this whole region is built upon the exploitation of PoC.