‘Urban Renewal’ Legacy Hinders Black Progress in US
Throughout the 1950s and 60s, urban planners in the United States heavily discriminated against Black communities through “urban renewal” policies. One of the most destructive tactics, inner city freeway building, sought to permanently sever neighborhoods of color by building highways through them. VOA’s Anthony LaBruto spoke to historians documenting the phenomena and the new generation of African urban planners looking to rejoin communities of color.
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