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
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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.
Using eminent domain and then paying 20% under value is cold. It'd be shitty even if they paid fair market for it, but damn.