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SUNY CPD Civic Learning & Engagement: The Highway that Racism Built
SUNY CPD Civic Learning & Engagement: The Highway that Racism Built
In the 1960s, I-81 plowed through a historically Black neighborhood in Syracuse, displacing hundreds. When most of us think of racial injustice, interstate highway design isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. It is, in fact, a perfect example of structural racism in action: intentional government policy, enacted in almost every city in the […]