Magical History Tour

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This reminds me of Boston:

The story of how Buffalo's oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias -- UPDATED

In the '90s I visited my former teachers who were living in Dorchester. The couple shared a huge Victorian mansion with a group of other professors who taught at various colleges around Boston. I was amazed at the size of the place, because it housed at least five families and their children. Shortly after that, I attended a lecture that included a presentation on how Boston neighborhoods had changed since the 1800s. They’d color-coded each one based on the largest ethnic group. As the slid…

How Has Boston Gotten Away with Being Segregated for So Long?

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Another installment of Michael Harriot’s Black History Month series, a humorous lesson about explorers in the Americas & Caribbean:

Before 1619: The secret history of the first African Americans