black neighborhoods

ILLEGAL NOW, But NORMAL in Black Neighborhoods in the 1980’s Do you remember the way Black neighborhoods in the 1980’s came alive with rituals that seemed to vanish overnight? These daily practices held families together and turned every block into home. But something shifted between the...

Ok, back when I was looking for places to live depending on what city we were going to move to, I started crunching Census data, basically to see where the educated and affluent Black folks were at around the country. Much later I was looking at where the majority solid middle class Black areas...