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Embed iframe src "https://www.npr.org/player/embed/972580037/973498759" width "100%" height "290" frameborder "0" scrolling "no" title "NPR embedded audio player" RUND ABDELFATAH, HOST: Hi, it's Rund. And this week, we wanted to bring you something a little different. It's part of a series called "La Brega," and it's a co-production of our friends at WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios. RAMTIN ARABLOUEI, HOST: La brega is a hard word to translate. In Spanish, it means something like the struggle or the hustle. And the seven episodes look at how la brega has defined so many aspects of life i...

1.1K shares LONG ISLAND, New York — After William “Bill” Levitt fought alongside Black soldiers as a Navy lieutenant in World War II, he returned home to pioneer the American suburb. In contrast to the nominal racial integration of the Navy, however, Blacks were banned from living in Levitt’s ticky-tacky neighborhoods. With Jewish roots in Austria and Russia, the Levitt family did for houses what Henry Ford did for automobiles. To build Levittown on Long Island, their first successful suburb, Levitt & Sons deployed a high-tech 26-step process. The firm’s methods and policies w...