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  • Highways that destroyed Black neighborhoods are crumbling. Some want to undo that legacy

    04/01/2021 10:14:06 AM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 60 replies
    Channel 3000 ^ | February 27, 2021 | CNN
    (CNN) — Njeri Camara, 61, can’t visit the Shreveport, Louisiana home where she was born. Like many Black homes and neighborhoods across the country in the 1960s, it was bulldozed to clear space for highways. Camara says her parents moved when she was a baby to another Shreveport neighborhood, Allendale, where she still lives. But now her current home is at risk of being bulldozed so that a second highway, Interstate 49, can connect directly through the city. The Shreveport leaders who want to trade Camara’s home for a highway are embracing a Dwight Eisenhower-era belief in the almighty good...