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history 02 · 28 · 2026 DENIED The second fire of Black Wall Street. history 04 · 03 · 2026 CLEARANCE Detroit's clean word for taking a Black neighborhood history 04 · 04 · 2026 REDLINE The map looked calm. The decades after it did not. history 05 · 17 · 2026 BLIGHT Mill Creek Valley was starved, then called blighted, then cleared. power 06 · 24 · 2026 ROBESON Penn's own collaborative history records the university's "heavy hand in Unit 3 planning." Before the 2026 vote to close a school named for Paul Robeson, a state representative named Penn. dispatch 07 · 12 · 2026 ACTION PLAN Russell City was a town with a blues scene, a carnival, and a ladies' social club. The county froze it, starved it, and then found it blighted. dispatch 07 · 15 · 2026 DESIGNATED Fourteen cultural districts existed in California before this one. None of them was Black. history 09 · 22 · 2026 SUBSIDIZED A sign on a brick wall in Mound Bayou reads MOUND BAYOU FOUNDATION. The federal caption filed with its photograph credited the town to a railroad company. A National Register nomination prepared in 1975 calls Isaiah Montgomery and Benjamin Green co-founders. dispatch 09 · 22 · 2026 TRANSFER STATION Black Wide-Awake reports that freedmen founded a church outside Atlanta in early Reconstruction. The oldest marked grave in its cemetery, across the road, dates to 1871. A data center campus is rising around the cemetery now. A commission member told the council in August that ground-penetrating radar had been scheduled. Honor Thy Roots and a descendant asked for an independent archaeological investigation. No report on record says the radar has been run.

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NEW UNASKED RECOGNIZED CONSENTED SUBSIDIZED TRANSFER STATION CLANDESTINE PROMISED UNSEARCHABLE RESTORED BORROWED THE COUNTED CROWD BARRIER THE CONCESSION COMPROMISE ORIGIN OF THE SEARCH TERMS OUTSIDER WITHIN ABANDONED COURTESY DIGITAL USER ACCOUNT REFUSE UNNECESSARY PREDICTIVE Ellora Derenoncourt and Her Co-Authors Built the Line DESIGNATED SUBSTANTIAL AND EFFECTIVE COMPLIANCE ACTION PLAN POSTPONED RECARVED ROBESON Without a Word for It What Was Buried, Not Broken Money's A Loan Before It's A Thing NAMING MACHINE BLIGHT REDLINE CLEARANCE DENIED