Spike Lee (pictured) has spoken at length in times past about how his beloved borough of Brooklyn has changed over the years due to gentrification. Last night,…
NEW YORK — The Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, a historically Black neighborhood famously depicted in Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing,” is becoming more and more mixed due to a high influx of whites moving in. The white migration has made rent prices higher and forced many African Americans to move from […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Tonette Sivells, the first in her family to graduate from college, saved her money to achieve another dream: buying her first home, in Congress Heights. But when a community group suggested opening a home for at-risk youths, she and other neighbors opposed it, because there are four programs to help the […]
