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Some of the country s highways were built through existing Black and brown communities. President Biden s infrastructure plan aims to address racial inequities. // Corbis via Getty Images, Richard Baker
In his $2 trillion plan to improve America s infrastructure, President Biden is promising to address the racism ingrained in historical transportation and urban planning.
Biden s plan includes $20 billion for a program that would reconnect neighborhoods cut off by historic investments, according to the White House. It also looks to target 40 percent of the benefits of climate and clean infrastructure investments to disadvantaged communities.
Planners of the interstate highway system, which began to take shape after the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, routed some highways directly, and sometimes purposefully, through Black and brown communities. In some instances, the government took homes by eminent domain.
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