A Highway That Doesn’t Exist Is Strangling a Black Neighborhood
Co-published with Bloomberg City Lab. In the Louisiana city of Shreveport, residents of Allendale have spent decades fighting a highway expansion. Even if they succeed, the neighborhood is already losing.
I was given a house for free – but it already belonged to someone else
ASJA Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Social Change | When I put the house on the market, I uncovered a story of a Black woman losing her home to municipal greed.
Freedom Dreams: Black Women and the Student Debt Crisis
Co-published with The Intercept. In “Freedom Dreams,” narrated by Nina Turner, Black women talk about how student debt has impacted their lives and what cancellation would mean for their futures.
What Are Other Names for Juneteenth? The U.S. Is Betraying the Spirit of ‘Jubilee Day’
Co-published with Teen Vogue. We’re still waiting on “a real age of emancipation,” writes Braxton Brewington.
Her Name Was Shirley: The Story of Gordon Parks’s ‘Colored Entrance’ Photo
Co-published with Esquire. The photo has been used to exemplify an America that once was—but the story of its subject and the dreams she once had is long overdue.
Black Families Passed Their Homes From One Generation to the Next. Now They May Be Lost.
Co-published with The Guardian. Unstable property rights mean Black southerners may survive a flood but lose their home, and it’s causing the racial wealth gap to grow larger.
Forsyth County Meets the New American Majority
Co-published with Slate. What happens in a Whitopia as a red Georgia turns blue?