redlining 
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
9/24/2020
Why Supermarkets Are Powerful Flash Points In Racial Politics
by Tracey Deutsch and James McElroy
In addition to selling food, grocery stores have also preserved a social order that treats shoppers of different races differently, dispensing hierarchy along with food — and, in fact, creating it.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/24/2020
How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering
A recent study has examined a historical connection between racist redlining practices in urban planning and heat-trapping environments in present-day urban neighborhoods.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
6/20/2020
To Avoid Integration, Americans Built Barricades in Urban Space
Urban inequality didn’t happen by accident.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
5/1/2020
COVID-19 and the Color Line
by Colin Gordon, Walter Johnson, Jason Q. Purnell, and Jamala Rogers
The disproportionate toll COVID-19 has taken on black Americans is a product of conscious choices by actors at every level of government and private industries like banking, insurance and real estate.
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SOURCE: Billy Penn
4/18/2020
Stimulus Could Heighten Racial Economic Inequality, Historians Warn
The federal government in the 1930s established the housing policies that keep cities segregated even today, said author and historian Richard Rothstein.
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SOURCE: Marketplace
4/16/2020
Inequality by Design: How Redlining Continues to Shape our Economy
Professor of history Nathan Connolly visited the travelling exhibit "Undesign the Redline."
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SOURCE: Reason
Accessed 1/29/19
Washington Forced Segregation on the Nation
It's time to remedy the effects of that terrible policy.
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