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WASHINGTON — A long-delayed plan to dismantle Interstate 375, a 1-mile (1.6-kilometer) depressed freeway in Detroit that was built by demolishing Black neighborhoods 60 years ago, was a big winner of federal money Thursday, the first Biden administration grant awarded to tear down a racially divisive roadway.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A long-delayed plan to dismantle Interstate 375, a 1-mile (1.6-kilometer) depressed freeway in Detroit that was built by demolishing

WASHINGTON (AP) — A long-delayed plan to dismantle Interstate 375, a 1-mile (1.6-kilometer) depressed freeway in Detroit that was built by demolishing Black neighborhoods 60 years ago, was a big winner of federal money Thursday, the first Biden administration grant awarded to tear down a racially divisive roadway.

Michigan will receive a $105 million grant to help replace the interstate with a boulevard. Learn more at Boston.com.

The freeway removal movement is being boosted by $1bn in federal funding. Will it be enough to reverse decades of damage?

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg launched a $1 billion project on Thursday to fix America's racist infrastructure system.

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