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Erasing the “Black Spot”: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood – ProPublica

“Nationally, and in Virginia, the higher-education playbook has hardly changed. In the past two decades, universities in Miami, Phoenix, Philadelphia and more than a dozen other cities have developed research parks in former Black and Latino communities, often through eminent domain, said Davarian Baldwin, an American-studies professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut…”

Another instance of the top 20% crowding out the bottom 50%.


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