Highways that destroyed Black neighborhoods are crumbling. Some want to undo that legacy CNN 2/27/2021 By Matt McFarland, CNN Business © Mario Villafuerte/Bloomberg/Getty Images Motorists drive their vehicles along Interstate 20 in Shreveport, Louisiana, in a file photo from 2007.
Njeri Camara, 61, can t visit the Shreveport, Louisiana home where she was born. Like many Black homes and neighborhoods across the country in the 1960s, it was bulldozed to clear space for highways.
Camara says her parents moved when she was a baby to another Shreveport neighborhood, Allendale, where she still lives. But now her current home is at risk of being bulldozed so that a second highway, Interstate 49, can connect directly through the city.
Highways that destroyed Black neighborhoods are crumbling Some want to undo that legacy
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Many within our Black community suffer from chronic sicknesses, like diabetes and heart disease. This is no surprise when so much of the neighborhoods where those Black people live lack sidewalks or any other safe means to travel without an automobile.
Our team working with the Racial & Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Grant is focused on improving the health and increasing the needed resources for Chatham County s low-wealth Black population. We can do this because the grant is awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the partnership of the YMCA of Coastal Georgia and Healthy Savannah. It is a five-year grant, originally awarded in 2019 for $3.4 million. We are in year three of the grant.