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“You just couldn’t go,” Pinkney, a Miami resident, told NBC 6. A database at Tougaloo College lists Miami Beach and Coral Gables as potential “Sundown Towns.” The historian behind the database, James Loewen, went on to detail them in a book titled “Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism.”   Local historians Marvin Dunn and Dr. Paul George say many towns with “beach” in their names were “Sundown Towns” because Black people had to be off the beach after dark.   At times, they also excluded Jewish people, Latinos, and anyone considered not to be white.  P...

The guide's creator knew the racist dangers Black motorists faced in the 1940s through the 1960s and hoped one day his Green Books wouldn't be needed

The Laws of Settlements book available for free online! Are there fundamental laws that govern all settlements—from the smallest village to the largest cities? This is the question that drove me to write The Laws of Settlements and continues to propel my research on landscape—a term that I use to describe the complex and continuous dialogue between people and non-human natural systems.  It was a question that I thought—and continue to believe—belongs to everybody: one whose answer is necessary to even attempt to engage the complex challenges that will face us for decades to come. As...