Author: dientedeleon21

As Property Values Rise In Atlanta, So Does The Exploitation Of Black Homeowners | 90.1 FM WABE

Sarah Mae Rogers said she built her house from the foundation up. She lives in a blue, single-story home at the southern edge of Grant Park. She purchased it through a nonprofit called Charis in the 1980s. As part of the deal, her family took part in construction. “Every Saturday, me and my son had to come and help
— Read on www.wabe.org/equity-theft-the-exploitation-of-atlantas-low-income-homeowners/

Atlanta Studies | Electrifying Race Relations: Atlanta’s Streetcars and the 1906 Race Riots

In this excerpt from his new book Regenerating Dixie: Electric Energy and the Modern South, Casey Cater discusses the racial conflicts on the city’s streetcars that were part of the lead up to the infamous 1906 race riots.
— Read on www.atlantastudies.org/2019/05/14/casey-p-cater-electrifying-race-relations-atlantas-streetcars-and-the-1906-race-riots/

Racism has shaped public transit, and it’s riddled with inequities | The Kinder Institute for Urban Research

From funding, planning and infrastructure, to design and policing, many transit agencies essentially have built two systems with different standards for “choice” and “dependent” riders (that is to say white and Black).
— Read on kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/2020/08/24/transportation-racism-has-shaped-public-transit-america-inequalities