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How Brooklyn’s Earliest Black Residents Found Empowerment and Solidarity in Their Diverse Community
The little known history of 19th-century New York City.
by
Prithi Kanakamedala
via
Literary Hub
on
September 18, 2024
The Family Photographs That Helped Us Investigate How a University Displaced a Black Community
A longtime resident of Shoe Lane chronicled the life of his community as it was demolished by Christopher Newport University. His photographs helped a reporter seek accountability.
by
Logan Jaffe
via
ProPublica
on
April 23, 2024
Betty Smith Enchanted a Generation of Readers with ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’
No other 20th-century American novel did quite so much to burnish Brooklyn’s reputation.
by
Rachel Gordan
via
The Conversation
on
February 27, 2024
The Invention of a Neighborhood
In the early years of Brooklyn’s gentrification, a 1977 New Yorker piece by Jervis Anderson captured the process in a freeze-frame.
by
Jonathan Lethem
via
The New Yorker
on
August 21, 2023
Remembering the Slip: The Manhattan Street that Birthed a Generation of Artists
The tiny downtown passage, where artists burned pallets for warmth, was home to Ellsworth Kelly and Agnes Martin.
by
Hannah Marriott
via
The Guardian
on
August 2, 2023
Searching For Silver Lake: The Radical Neighborhood That Changed Gay America
For decades, these Los Angeles streets have played host to key events in LGBTQ+ history. But gentrification has transformed the area.
by
Lois Beckett
via
The Guardian
on
July 2, 2023
Red Lights, Blue Lines
Three recent books examine the discrimination and hypocrisy at the heart of policing “vice.”
by
Sarah Schulman
via
New York Review of Books
on
March 3, 2023
The Past and Future of Mexican Chicago
From the machine politicians in La Villita to the radicals in Pilsen, Mexican Chicagoans have played a central role in defining their city.
by
Juan Ignacio Mora
via
The Nation
on
January 10, 2023
How the Block Party Became an Urban Phenomenon
“That spirit of community, which we all talk about as the roots of hip-hop, really originates in that block party concept.”
by
Briana A. Thomas
via
Smithsonian
on
August 10, 2022
partner
The First Koreatown
Pachappa Camp, the first Korean-organized immigrant settlement in the United States, was established through the efforts of Ahn Chang Ho.
by
Matthew Wills
,
Hannah Brown
,
Edward T. Chang
via
JSTOR Daily
on
May 27, 2022
Grantmaking as Governance
A new book examines how the US government funded the growth of — and delegated governance to — the nonprofit sector.
by
Benjamin Soskis
via
Stanford Social Innovation Review
on
May 26, 2022
A Civil War Among Neighbors Over Confederate-Themed Streets
Debates between neighbors escalate over the use of Confederate names within a Northern Virginia neighborhood.
by
Antonio Olivo
via
Washington Post
on
May 15, 2022
'The World Was Ukrainian'
A stubborn and surprising immigrant enclave, hiding in plain sight on the Lower East Side.
by
Christopher Bonanos
via
Curbed
on
April 11, 2022
Explore Milwaukee's History Through Its Many Home Styles
Interactive map shows Milwaukee’s housing patterns reflect not only aesthetic trends but also how historical events like immigration, war and civil rights shaped the city.
by
Daphne Chen
,
Erin Caughey
,
Yuriko Schumacher
via
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
on
April 1, 2022
The US Arrested Her—Then She Changed Chicago
In the 1960s, Chicago’s white neighborhoods didn’t want Mexican Americans moving in. But one determined real estate broker changed everything.
by
Mike Amezcua
via
Public Books
on
February 28, 2022
How “Who Killed Fourth Ward?” Challenged the Nature of Documentary Filmmaking
James Blue’s film investigated the destruction of a Black neighborhood in Houston, but it is also a powerful self-interrogation.
by
Richard Brody
via
The New Yorker
on
January 21, 2022
In Virginia, a Historic Black Neighborhood Grapples With Whether to Grow
Some in The Settlement, founded by formerly enslaved people, say development should be allowed to create generational Black wealth while others disagree.
by
Antonio Olivo
via
Washington Post
on
July 18, 2021
Redlining, Race, and the Color of Money
Long after the end of explicit discrimination in the housing market, the federal government continued to manage risk for capital, perpetuating inequality.
by
Garrett Dash Nelson
via
Dissent
on
July 8, 2021
Vanishing Neighborhoods
The fate of Raleigh's 11 missing freedman's villages.
by
Heather Leah
via
WRAL
on
January 21, 2021
Boroughed Time
Confronting a long tradition of projecting fantasies onto the South Bronx.
by
Sasha Frere-Jones
via
Bookforum
on
September 3, 2020
The Long Reinvention of the South Bronx
Peter L'Official on the Mythologies Behind Urban Renewal.
by
Peter L'Official
via
Literary Hub
on
August 3, 2020
Racist Housing Practices From The 1930s Linked To Hotter Neighborhoods Today
A study of more than 100 cities shows neighborhoods subjected to discriminatory housing policies nearly a century ago are hotter today than other areas.
by
Meg Anderson
via
NPR
on
January 14, 2020
The Ladder Up
A restless history of Washington Heights.
by
Carina del Valle Schorske
via
VQR
on
December 14, 2019
Walking with the Ghosts of Black Los Angeles
"You can't disentangle blackness and California."
by
Ismail Muhammad
via
Literary Hub
on
September 20, 2019
Capturing Black Bottom, a Detroit Neighborhood Lost to Urban Renewal
A new exhibit at the Detroit Public Library, displays old images of the historic African American neighborhood in its final days.
by
Amy Crawford
via
CityLab
on
February 15, 2019
partner
To Understand What Could Happen on Election Day, Understand the Suburbs
Even as they've diversified, suburban politics have remained protectionist — often defying ideological categorization.
by
Becky M. Nicolaides
via
Made by History
on
August 15, 2024
What Adults Lost When Kids Stopped Playing in the Street
In many ways, a world built for cars has made life so much harder for grown-ups.
by
Stephanie H. Murray
via
The Atlantic
on
July 29, 2024
A Portrait of New York City by Air in 1924
Long before Google Maps, an intrepid inventor with three camera-equipped biplanes captured a groundbreaking view of Gotham in its Jazz Age glory.
by
Thomas J. Campanella
via
Bloomberg
on
June 29, 2024
How The U.S. Military Built San Francisco's LBGTQ+ Legacy
Many LGBTQ+ veterans settled in the city as it was a common point of disembarkation and a place of gender nonconformity.
by
Solcyré Burga
via
Made By History
on
June 21, 2024
Nowhere But Up
In the wake of the 1964 Harlem riots, June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller’s plan to redesign the neighborhood suggested new possibilities for urban life.
by
Nikil Saval
via
New York Review of Books
on
June 8, 2024
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