Routine maintenance is necessary for every homeowner. But for Black women, that burden is complicated by decades of redlining and the impacts of climate change.
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Two urban policy experts explain why taking down highways that have isolated low-income and minority neighborhoods for decades is an important part of the pending infrastructure bill.
Evidence shows that many Black Americans experience police killings of unarmed Black people – even those they do not know – as traumatic events, causing acute physical and emotional distress.
US cities began naming streets in Black neighborhoods for Martin Luther King Jr. after his 1968 assassination. Researchers studying these areas 50 years later found entrenched deprivation.
New research shows homes in white areas have appreciated $200,000 more since 1980 than similar homes in nonwhite areas – a result of both old racist housing policies and modern real estate practices.
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Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University
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Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor, Geosciences Department, Mississippi State University
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Post Doctoral Fellow in Geospatial Institute, Saint Louis University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Tulane University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
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Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University
