Erasing the “Black Spot”: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood
Erasing the “Black Spot”: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood
Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, Virginia, seized the core of a thriving Black community to build a college. The school has been gobbling up the remaining houses ever since.
Interesting. Another college did this: UVA. I assumed this article was going to be about their pushing everyone into “Canada“ (neighborhood) and then taking over the area around them and summarily pushing them out of there too. Sad to see we have enough cases of this that it’s unclear which instance of a Virginia college pushing Black people out of their homes is being referenced.
I live close to CNU and never knew this. I probably should have assumed something like this happened considering this whole region is built upon the exploitation of PoC.
Good article. The crimes that were done against black communities to make the white boomer lifestyle possible need to be laid out, even if nobody who did this saw accountability during their lifetimes, reparations should be made. Within my parent's lifetimes, apartheid was the law in the USA. We haven't even begun to truly account for what happened.