Click the button below to open a PDF which outlines the changes in numbers of Black and white residents of census tracts 2 and 3 (as well as Asheville as a whole), as well as changes in household size, from 1970 through 2020. There are many stories and things to...
This is a brief overview of urban renewal in Montford (census tracts 2 and 3). The full story begins with chattel slavery and includes generations of racial segregation, systemic disinvestment, and discrimination (such as redlining) which made the historically Black...
In a recent piece for the Urban News, “The State of Black Asheville and Reparations,” Dr. Dwight Mullen writes: “Jim Crow Segregation was ended by federal legislation in 1964. The Civil Rights Act prohibited official bigotry. Local, state or national levels of...
“Gentrification Explained” is a short video [by the Urban Displacement Project] that unpacks what gentrification really means, getting beyond the buzzword. The video addresses what led to gentrification, what gentrification looks like on the ground, and the impact of...
