Melvin Smith & Rose Smith: Recollections of Rondo
It’s a story heard all too often: the government declares eminent domain and razes minority communities in the name of urban renewal. With this, families are displaced or cut off from resources and each other as roads, parks, and railways promote growth for wealthier or more powerful stakeholders. In destroying communities, culture is also lost as buildings that brought people together for generations disappear, taking with them the activities they used to house.
Source: brooklynrail.org
