Racist housing policies leave lasting scars on Lafayette Follow Us Question of the Day
Bishop John Milton takes part in a protest march in Girard Park demanding #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd and demanding changes in local policing. Sunday, June 14, 2020 in Lafayette, La. “We can’t look at the status of Lafayette’s segregated populations in a vacuum; ... more > By ANDREW CAPPS and Lafayette Daily Advertiser - Associated Press - Saturday, May 8, 2021 LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - On either side of University Avenue, just outside downtown Lafayette, a decades-long history of racial segregation is laid bare. The once vibrant Four Corners, where University Avenue meets Cameron Street, stands at the division of some of the city’s earliest neighborhoods, separated by race, as a visualization of the decline of Lafayette’s predominantly Black northside.