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HISTORY
Documenting Black history and American history the textbooks erased.
HISTORY is the civic archive of place and displacement — the communities demolished, the records buried, the patterns that repeat because they were never named. Its casefiles trace the procedural mechanics by which a Black community is removed from the public record.
4 essays published
BLIGHT Blight is how a city converts engineered neglect into legal permission.
REDLINE They didn't deny you the loan. They just colored your neighborhood red and let the system do the rest.
CLEARANCE Detroit didn't demolish a slum. It demolished a community, then built a highway through the memory.
DENIED They filed $4 million in claims. Every single one was denied.