Over 60 years ago, white leaders of Newport News, Virginia uprooted a Black community to build a college. The few families remaining are still being pressured to sell, ProPublica uncovers.
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Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, Virginia, seized the core of a thriving Black community to build a college. The school has been gobbling up the remaining houses ever since.
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