NBC News recently recorded six minutes of sound at 10 a.m. from Dr. King Elementary School. During that time, 31 vehicles passed the school on I-81, including seven trucks.
“We rely on 81,” Emmi says. “I understand the wrong that was done 60 years ago. I am all for a solution that works for everybody in the region, and not one or the other. We don't need another loser.”One of the hotels managed by Carmen Emmi just off I-81 in Salina, N.Y. These days, Davis runs a liquor store on the north side, but dreams of returning to start a new business — maybe an event space or the area’s first yoga studio.
Over the ensuing half-century, many have called for the expressway’s removal so that the neighborhood can return to its former glory. Amy Stelly, an urban designer, who lives in Tremé, leads that fight now. Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes, the director of the Ashé Cultural Arts Center, which supports Black artists and educators, said that many community advocates were initially supportive of the highway’s removal, but it soon became clear that residents in the affected neighborhoods were not as enthusiastic.
Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said he came into office with the hope of taking down the interstate and reconnecting the neighborhoods. But Landrieu, who became known nationwide for his removal of the city’s Confederate statues in 2017, said he wanted to take a different approach and engage the community itself first.
It has drawn federal attention, however, with the Biden administration specifically naming this corridor in its plan to address racism and highway infrastructure. Advocates on both sides of the debate are now dusting off competing health assessments and interstate plans for another fight about the future of these neighborhoods.
Barbara Lacen-Keller under the Claiborne Corridor leaning against one of the pillars with a painted tree. Aerial photo showing construction of a stretch of the Pomona Freeway from Boyle Heights to unincorporated East Los Angeles. The freeways it didn’t build, such as Beverly Hills Freeway, would have cut through white neighborhoods. It built 100 percent of the freeways planned for communities in East Los Angeles, however.
This is more NBC b.s. posted to destroy our unity. Boycott nbc
Someone tell this to Detroit about the 375… Then dig it up and grant the land back to residents.
Everything is about race. It’s gettin so old.
The nice thing about highways is you can go practically anywhere in the country and not have step foot in a city.
NBC Biased reporting over the years, geared towards and tailored to a white audience. (Two can play the race bating game beeatch)
When both justice and equality are nothing but just a myth.
I can't wait until air is declared racist. All the anti-racists will then have to boycott breathing. They won't be missed.
Fake
They already exist. Stop the crap and live with it.
Does it matter that this narrative is false? Highways went through all kinds of neighborhoods, mostly cheap land in all kinds of communities, not just black and latino but Irish, Italian, Jewish, Asian, etc. It was New Deal lending programs that did most damage.
We've now moved to the point where roads are racist 🤣🤣🤣
No2IRI
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MattMurph24 It would be easier to list the cities (if there are any) where the interstate didn’t go right thru neighborhoods of POC and more recent immigrants than to list the ones it did.
A lot of the motivation for building highways during that time was to connect the newly expanding suburban communities with the downtown/inner-city workplaces White flight destroyed inner city communities which in turn motivated/justified further flight. Self fulfilling prophecy
Freeways were Racist
I don't believe after living through that era that it was racist because people that profited from it were the ones that were in touch with politicians to get the highway to damage somebody else instead of themselves for-profit.🙊🙉🙈
MSNBC PUSHING THE POOR INTO THE SEA One side of the B.Q.E. used to be wealthy and the other side full of projects. That's no longer the case. The wealthy are buying up everything. So now they want to sink the highway underground into a tunnel so they can build more luxury housing.
During the largest public works program ever attempted in the US, the American interstate highway program demolished homes and bisected communities, driven by the promise of prosperity and jobs. From 1957-1977, it displaced over 475,000 households and 1,000,000 people. (2/10)
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