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Thousands of people attend the Sweet Auburn Heritage Festival on Historic Auburn Avenue in Atlanta in 2010. Tracking the city's black and white populations over the decades is a trickier task than ...
The “Atlanta Way” sees diversity as only black and white. We need to make room for new communities of color. That means some people are going to have to step back.
ATLANTA — Black political and economic power have long defined this Southern metropolis, which created a generation of middle-class and wealthy professionals and entrepreneurs and is a magnet ...
According to the report, “From 1980 to 2020, more than 523 majority-Black neighborhoods nationwide experienced gentrification, and about 261,000 fewer Black residents now live in those areas.” ...
Black life can often seem like a house of mirrors: A situation feels racist, but when you look again, you’re not really sure. You don’t have a way to X-ray white hearts, so now you’re ...
Atlanta’s Cyclorama had the black role in a Civil War battle all wrong. She set about to fix that. March 26, 2019 More than 6 years ago Summary ...
Yet I still thought of Atlanta as a two-horse town: black and white. Because when you only acknowledge a place as this or that, both sides get a sizable slice of the pie.
Between 1980 and 2020, 523 majority-Black neighborhoods experienced gentrification. Of those, 155 went through full racial turnover—changing from majority-Black to majority-white.
White flight (among other things): Whites moved out of Atlanta in huge numbers from 1960-80 as blacks moved in. It's tempting to call this merely "white flight" and be done with it. But use plenty ...