Africatown, two Black communities with the same name, located across the country from each other, face a similar challenge—involuntary out-migration.
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Ark Republic followed up with Chef Wanda Blake on food culture in San Francisco. Through the waves of gentrification since the late 1960s, we wanted to know about the shift in the food culture of the city.
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For Ark Republic’s gentrification series, urban planner and professor, Nmadili Okwumabua, tells of her time spent at town halls in the early 2000s, with residents pushing back against encroaching developers.
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In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated most Black neighborhoods in New Orleans, resulting in displacement for hundreds of thousands of people. Many did not make it back, but for those who did, staying gets harder every year. With gentrification, now “stragglers” buy up land and change the dynamics of tight-knit communities.
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This year, Housing Is A Human Right released a sweeping investigative report about government-sanctioned gentrification in Los Angeles. Mayor Eric Garcetti stands at the center of this important exposé. As the second largest city in the United States, the largely untold story about L.A.’s devastating gentrification crisis is a must-read cautionary tale for the rest
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Market Street between Halsey Street and Washington Street in Newark, New Jersey. The barber brotherhood. Ab of Iconic Styles, Newark, New Jersey Surviving gentrification.The barber brotherhood. Eric of New Wave Unisex, Newark, New Jersey Jay of Epic Creations keeps his barber chairs swinging to service local customers in Newark, New Jersey.
With the changing commercial district in Newark, New Jersey, a shift in commercial real estate and leasing made it harder for small businesses. Comparing a popular African American hairstyle, ‘the Brooklyn’ with gentrification, local mom-and-pops try to stay afloat against big box companies entering into Newark’s downtown.
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Matthew Gamble’s comic strip, The World is a Gamble presents a satirical, but true experience of Blacks participating in a reverse migration back down South.
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A poem and performance giving raw truths of how the real gangster in Chicago is gentrification.
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San Francisco carries a rich, African American culinary history. Documented by San Franciscan, Chef Wanda Blake, she also talks about how gentrification changed the neighborhood she called home and nourished both her soul and hunger for entrepreneurship.
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The hair industry is the thermometer of a nation’s economy. As barbershops in Downtown Newark, New Jersey navigate gentrification, they also show the serious struggle of longtime residents against a changing landscape both economically and racially. While they created the city’s culture and swag, Newark leaves many behind.
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Entrepreneurs in one of the few Black business enclaves in Los Angeles remain optimistic as an NFL sports stadium finishes construction, and the possible headquarters of NBA’s LA Clippers loom, Inglewood’s development preps for what they say is a renaissance.
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Washington DC is a city fighting to hold onto its culture and identity in the midst of rising housing costs, taxes and an influx of non-native residents.
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When NBA and NFL franchise players in professional sports find their way to a city, it is more than fanfare and hysteria. Literally, players can change the demographics and the economies of metropolises; especially those experiencing hard financial times.
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An annual, neighborhood block party in Harlem gets shut down after police respond to a complaint made by “new neighbors” who called law enforcement on longtime residents, claiming that their loud noise and suspicious activity were a threat.
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Manuel Lloyd and Dalvonte Howard look at how a real estate company forced low income, Black community members in Wilmington, North Carolina, out of their homes after some units in an apartment complex were damaged by 2018 major storm, Hurricane Florence.
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Artists at Jack London Square fight for visibility and a permanent store in Oakland, showing one of the remaining groups pushing against gentrification.
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Brooklyn, blue collar workers at a machine shop mainstay, built careers and familial ties. Now, they collect memories in the final days before it shutters.
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For Ark Republic’s “Whose Block is it Anyway?” Sabeena Singhani, gives voice to residents living in Bushwick Brooklyn who negotiate their space and identity in the midst of gentrification.
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"Newsie," Roland, an 11-year-old newsboy in Newark. August 1, 1924. Photo credit Lewis Wickes Hines 
Jewish Newsboys in Newark, NJ. Image shot circa 1910. 
Vintage photo between 1900-1937 shows boys and a girl at buggy. The Hurdy Gurdy collection. Photo credit: New York Digital Public Library 
Newark Suffrage hikers on way to Washington walking through city on Broad Street. Hike organized and led by Rosalie Jones, February 12, 1913. Photo credit: Everett Historical Society 
Newark's colored women open a club to care for their men who served in WWI. Circa 1918. Mayor's Office, Newark, NJ. (War Dept.) 
Newark women in a civil defense unit in drill practice in 1940. Molly Pitcher Brigrade was formed a year before the US entered World War II. Photo credit: Everette Historical Society 
Broad Street, Central Ward in Newark, New Jersey. Homes sit across from what today is Lincoln Park. 
651 1/2 Broad Street at Centre Market Newark 1870. Currently this is across the street from the federal court buildings and Newark's main downtown post office. Shoppers eat at new Whole Foods Market in Newark, NJ on opening day, March 1, 2017. Photo credits: Richard B. Levine
The history of Black and brown ownership in Newark, NJ, in a time where we question not if the city is undergoing gentrification, but where does that leave opportunity for growth and inclusion for natives.
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Chase Matthews with guest host, Kaylah Brown, talk about what happens to communities when a franchise builds a sports complex there.
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Going home can be a momentous occasion or one of great loss. Like the old Spanish Harlem residents in Da Gambling Man who crave for a taco from a local eatery that was once a staple. To their surprise, they encountered a new species, the hipster—a reminder that even the food is getting gentrified.
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A fight for tenants rights and subsequent involvement in a grassroots movement made a local photographer capture their changing East Village in Manhattan.
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Brooklyn, Bronx, Austin, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Newark, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Oakland, Houston, and Philadelphia—are just some of the cities around the country experiencing dramatic shifts in its landscape. The phenomenon is best defined as gentrification.
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When I moved to Newark, New Jersey in 2007, it became the third consecutive city I lived in where gentrification destabilized Black communities residing there for generations.
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Through forced migration and gentrification, which promised a better life, Black folks in Los Angeles, in the early 80s, met resistance and suffered unintended consequences. In essence, we traded one type of community violence—such as gangs, drugs, and poverty—for the physical, emotional and financial violence of racism from dominant cultures.
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While reflecting on long-held beliefs, a young Bronx native comes to terms with how she truly sees her home.
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The uncertainties of homeless and displacement fuel an anti-eviction collection to disrupt the 1 percent by hacking and redistributing the master’s tools.
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