Urban Roots Podcast
Urban Roots Podcast
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Decatur: Carolyn Cortner Smith
Throughout its history, Decatur, Alabama has produced a number of unapologetically bold, creative, and “difficult” women who weren’t afraid to break the mold. In this episode, we’ll tell you the story of one of them: Carolyn Cortner Smith, believed to be the first licensed female architect in the state of Alabama.
Carolyn was born at a time when Southern women were expected to be gentile, acquiescent, amenable. Carolyn…wasn’t. As a young girl growing up in 1900s Decatur, Carolyn would assemble lean-tos in the backyard; she was mesmerized by the idea of building. In 1913, she was rejected from three architecture schools, in all likelihood because she was a woman. Nevertheless, Carolyn perse...
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Decatur: First Missionary Baptist
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The city of Decatur, Alabama is home to many historic Black churches, including one with a particularly rich history: First Missionary Baptist Church, in Old Town, the city’s predominantly Black neighborhood. Designed by one of the first African American architects, Wallace Rayfield, the church has - from its post-Civil War beginnings - been a cornerstone of Decatur’s African American community...
Ohio River to Freedom: New Richmond
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- Greg Roberts, resident and Vice President of Historic New Richmond - Mary Allen, resident and longtime member of Historic New Richmond and the Vice President of the Clermont County Genealogical Society. - James Settles, resident and great-grandson of Joseph Settles - Dr. David Childs, Ph.D., Northern Kentucky University Thanks to Michael and Carrie Klein, who recorded the spirituals you heard...
Ohio River to Freedom: Ripley
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Black Underground Railroad agents lived perilous lives. Because they could be killed or jailed for their work, they hid any and all evidence of their activities. So, today, historical records of their efforts are rare. Luckily, however, historians in the town of Ripley, Ohio have not only uncovered the stories of their local Black Underground Railroad workers - they’re actively preserving them ...
BONUS: Justin Garrett Moore on Humanities in Place
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EXCITING NEWS…Season 3 is coming soon! If you’re not subscribed to our podcast or our newsletter, please do so now! You can also follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram. That way, you’ll know immediately when a new episode drops. Today we have a high-energy conversation with Justin Garrett Moore, program director for the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place program and a renaissance man of urban...
BONUS: Rukaiyah Adams on Reimagining Community
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Rukaiyah Adams is one of our favorite, most inspiring people on the planet. Rukaiyah had a long, successful career in investment banking before she moved back home to Portland, Oregon and joined the board of the Albina Vision Trust, an organization dedicated to restoring the historic Black neighborhood of Albina, where Rukaiyah grew up. Today, she’s the Chief Executive Officer of the 1803 Fund ...
Juneteenth Cincinnati Short: Marian Spencer
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To celebrate Juneteenth, Urbanist Media's Urban Roots podcast has partnered with Cincinnati Public Radio (WVXU)⁠ to bring you Juneteenth Cincinnati Shorts: weekly, 90-second tributes to people and places important to Cincinnati’s African American history. For our last short, we feature Marian Spencer, the Civil Rights activist and Cincinnati pioneer who got her start in 1952. Back then, Ms. Mar...
Urban Renewal Means Negro Removal
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This documentary, titled "Urban Renewal Means Negro Removal", is a follow up to Deqah Hussein-Wetzel’s 2021 documentary, "Lost Voice of Cincinnati", about the wholesale demolition Lower West End for the construction of Interstate 75 during the mid-20th century. In the words of the famous James Baldwin, urban renewal…“it means Negro removal, that is what it means”. Inspired by the first season o...
Juneteenth Cincinnati Shorts: Union Baptist Cemetery
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To celebrate Juneteenth, Urbanist Media's Urban Roots podcast has partnered with Cincinnati Public Radio (WVXU)⁠ to bring you Juneteenth Cincinnati Shorts: weekly, 90-second tributes to people and places important to Cincinnati’s African American history. Today, we’re highlighting Union Baptist Cemetery, one of Cincinnati’s oldest African American cemeteries. It’s the final resting place of man...
Cincinnati Juneteenth Shorts: Sarah Fossett
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Cincinnati Juneteenth Shorts: Sarah Fossett
Cincinnati Juneteenth Shorts: Intersectionality at the Cotton Club
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Cincinnati Juneteenth Shorts: Intersectionality at the Cotton Club
Juneteenth Cincinnati Short: Regal Theatre
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Juneteenth Cincinnati Short: Regal Theatre
TRAILER: The Lost City of Vanport
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TRAILER: The Lost City of Vanport
Brent Leggs on Raising Millions for Black Heritage
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Brent Leggs on Raising Millions for Black Heritage
BONUS: Bringing HAANDS Together to Preserve Black Neighborhoods
Просмотров 64Год назад
BONUS: Bringing HAANDS Together to Preserve Black Neighborhoods
BONUS: Vishaan Chakrabarti on Community Preservation
Просмотров 57Год назад
BONUS: Vishaan Chakrabarti on Community Preservation
Listen and Learn: Green-wood Cemetery's Freedom Lots
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Listen and Learn: Green-wood Cemetery's Freedom Lots
Listen & Learn: Biddy Mason & Black L.A.
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Listen & Learn: Biddy Mason & Black L.A.
S02E05 - Black Indy Part 2: Reclaiming Indianapolis' Black History
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S02E05 - Black Indy Part 2: Reclaiming Indianapolis' Black History
S02E04 - Black Indy Part 1: Madam C. J. Walker and the Rise and Fall of Indiana Avenue
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S02E04 - Black Indy Part 1: Madam C. J. Walker and the Rise and Fall of Indiana Avenue
S02E03 - Remembering Biddy Mason Part 2: Building Black L.A.
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S02E03 - Remembering Biddy Mason Part 2: Building Black L.A.
S02E02 - Remembering Biddy Mason Part 1: Long Road to Freedom
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S02E02 - Remembering Biddy Mason Part 1: Long Road to Freedom
Pod Clip: Biddy featured in a WPA Mural
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Pod Clip: Biddy featured in a WPA Mural
S02E01 - Unearthing Black History in Brooklyn: Green-Wood Cemetery’s Freedom Lots
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S02E01 - Unearthing Black History in Brooklyn: Green-Wood Cemetery’s Freedom Lots
Lost Voice of Cincinnati - West End Film Short
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Lost Voice of Cincinnati - West End Film Short
S01E04 - South Cumminsville: For the Love of the Neighborhood
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S01E04 - South Cumminsville: For the Love of the Neighborhood
S01E03 - Avondale: It Takes a Village
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S01E03 - Avondale: It Takes a Village
S01E01 - Cincinnati History is Black History
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S01E01 - Cincinnati History is Black History
Lost Voices of Cincinnati Series - Trailer
Просмотров 1973 года назад
Lost Voices of Cincinnati Series - Trailer

Комментарии

  • @CapstoneTider
    @CapstoneTider 7 часов назад

    The interstate highways were routed over the cheapest land the federal government could find period. Today, they would have to consider racial proportions.

  • @eatsalot
    @eatsalot День назад

    I had a black man tell me to move out of the white neighborhood that I live in because I didn't think the men's restrooms needed tampons.

  • @thomaskennedy2942
    @thomaskennedy2942 День назад

    Happens to non negro farmers all the time. America in general is fucked

  • @leohopkins71
    @leohopkins71 3 дня назад

    This is happening all over the country in cities big and small to communities of color.

  • @zenoslayer9618
    @zenoslayer9618 4 дня назад

    Did anybody get funds for their property or was it all rentals. If so those owners were. How could these highway be built without buying the property sounds like the politicians got their palms greased and let it happen

  • @tubulardude44
    @tubulardude44 4 дня назад

    Highway 10 in Los Angeles destroyed a once vibrant black community. Gee, l wonder why they didn’t run that freeway through Beverly Hills, or West Hollywood, or ….. ANY white neighborhood?! And btw, non-white, non-Protestants were not allowed to buy property in Arcadia (next to Pasadena) in the 1950s!

  • @peterbelanger4094
    @peterbelanger4094 4 дня назад

    Boo-hoo, I don't care. You are not entitled to those neighborhoods, nobody is.

  • @Delphisteve941
    @Delphisteve941 4 дня назад

    My family lived on Comer Ave. in Indianapolis in early 1960. I-65 was slated to be built through our neighbourhood and they came and put big red X's on our house for demolition after we were moved. It would be another 13 years before they demolished our old house on Comer for the new highway. We are a white family of 6 and all our neighbours that got evicted were white.

  • @Cacowninja
    @Cacowninja 4 дня назад

    I think the construction workers contracted by the politicians to do their dirty work are to blame for this too.

  • @decemberwahl
    @decemberwahl 5 дней назад

    Any major city in the US in a complete disaster because of the 13%. In Milwaukee they are responsible for 60% of the murders. Where is BLM when 2 teens shoot each other on my block. Is it only a crime when a white cop does it??

  • @user-lc4bo3ic3g
    @user-lc4bo3ic3g 6 дней назад

    They are the problem

  • @bobg3633
    @bobg3633 7 дней назад

    Woke nonsense as usual

  • @RicO-xg4ju
    @RicO-xg4ju 7 дней назад

    Looks like there are way too many highways for that city. Why not just make a highway go around a city?

  • @JessicaRamosMaskiell
    @JessicaRamosMaskiell 8 дней назад

    Is this video about highway or people!??🤔

  • @edbrown6985
    @edbrown6985 9 дней назад

    You are definitely doing your part to keep racism alive.

  • @empresssk
    @empresssk 9 дней назад

    Y’all are doing great work

  • @matthowell8985
    @matthowell8985 9 дней назад

    The way things are going within 50 years. There will be no such thing as black & white people everybody We'll be Beige. Which is kind of cool Cause we can stop arguing over things like this.

  • @plutomfjonez5007
    @plutomfjonez5007 9 дней назад

    Trail of tears all over again yall 🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🤔

  • @thisendthat
    @thisendthat 9 дней назад

    If you think this video is eye opening you should read, The Color of Law - A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein. I recently finished reading it and it was just devastating to learn the lengths our government went to to make sure blacks and whites live separately.

  • @13_13k
    @13_13k 11 дней назад

    The same thing happened in Los Angeles starting in the early 1960s and continued until the most recent freeway built completed in around 1995. The goverment (state, federal, and cities) plan these builds through the lowest income properties because they have to pay the property owners and tenants of rentals to relocate, which obviously costs them money. They aren't going to go through a neighborhood with homes worth $300k or $500k when they can go through neighborhoods with property worth $50k. It just so happens those are usually predominantly Black American neighborhoods. In L.A. they are Black and Latino neighborhoods. But, not in every case in L.A. . They built freeways through some neighborhoods that were and are still predominantly White. The Department of Airports , L.A.X. is located on land that had been a pig farm in the pre WWII time became a municipal airport, and then becaise of the war, it it grew and the area surrounding the airport was mostly just wild bean fields and the Pacific Ocean with oppulent mansions built in the 1920s for movie stars and the like. Then post war the area was changed from rolling hills of wild grass and pinto beans into GI housing for the veterans returning from Europe and the Pacific. The area is prime real estate with ocean and city views, ocean breezes, cool coastal fog, and an ideal neighborhood with schools, churches, shopping an almost television picture neighborhood of middle class living. Only to have the airport claim the housing in parts of the neighborhood too dangerous and noisey with the runways so close to homes. So they bought up the homes and made at least 300 - 500 middle and upper middle class homes and beach front mansions owners and families as well as two elementary schools and a jr high school move out and then tore down all the houses. They left the streets intact, like a modern ghost town. It stayed that way for 30 years. Then the Department of Airports cleared it and built a new highway extension of Pacific Coast Highway that cut part of the park and the golf course and what was land preserved for wildlife and that was in early 2000s. Now they did the same with more of that neighborhood removing housed and apartment buildings and schools to bring in the train and remote airport parking and a tramway into the airport that link to the two freeways. All of which was probably 85% White working class neighborhood. So, it isn't only the Black Communities although as I wrote at the beginning, they want the least expensive property to buy up and move people out. And we all know that across the U.S. those lowet cost neihhborhoods in big cities are Black people that live there. It is unfortunate but the government doesn't care.

  • @carsonellerby804
    @carsonellerby804 12 дней назад

    Indeed, and a half century later practically every urban canter in the United States is transforming through the process of gentrification/hyperventilation: essentially the same the narrative of “urban renewal”, just the flip opposite. Essentially middle class and urban professionals presently demand more urban living. The wicked occurrences present themselves through private real estate brokers hiking up land values. Higher land value increases the costs of living all across the United States. I Just pray private return to more affordable levels all across these states; whether urban, suburban, exurban and rural.

  • @mayachico9766
    @mayachico9766 12 дней назад

    I mean............kind of.......

  • @scottmcneely1927
    @scottmcneely1927 12 дней назад

    There's no "warn and fuzzy feeling" anywhere now.

  • @teddyghioto
    @teddyghioto 15 дней назад

    DAT DERE BEEZ WHERE DA PONY KEG WASZ ATTZ

  • @JosephEchevarria-er3lr
    @JosephEchevarria-er3lr 15 дней назад

    We are the only life form that pays too line on planet earth

  • @BullGooseTV
    @BullGooseTV 15 дней назад

    This is great, I've read a number of books on urban renewal but this does a great job of packaging the info in a very succint and easy to understand way

  • @juliofernandez8317
    @juliofernandez8317 16 дней назад

    This is such fuckin bullshit. Fend for yourself like Mother Nature intended and quit voting democrat as it doesn’t help anyone especially minorities

  • @Smokr
    @Smokr 18 дней назад

    Yes, it often does.

  • @chrhadden
    @chrhadden 18 дней назад

    we are all going to be enslaved if we dont unite. dont fall for this black people . its going to be to late and all of us will be enslaved

  • @jeffogden2982
    @jeffogden2982 19 дней назад

    Every city is different,up here in Dayton I75 effected everyone about the same but when Rt 35 when expanded to four lanes it effected the lower income white community more until the 80s when 35 was finished through the black communities so it's even now. I really think that highways should have been built on the edges of the cities and they the cities expand out to the highways instead of dividing neighborhoods. I have been looking at pictures of what the highways have taken away and it's a lot of small businesses.

  • @RobertRoth-oj6zz
    @RobertRoth-oj6zz 20 дней назад

    There's certain parts of Pittsburgh they did something similar to this only it was high rent apartments and not highways. This raised the cost of living in those parts of the city

  • @clarencep90
    @clarencep90 20 дней назад

    Yall better start acting right

  • @user-kq4hf8se5b
    @user-kq4hf8se5b 20 дней назад

    Go to an all black resident ghetto. That's not how I want to live.

  • @wofat6300
    @wofat6300 21 день назад

    What is Gentrification?

    • @chad2787
      @chad2787 17 дней назад

      Anti-caucasianism

    • @ScottP-oi8oq
      @ScottP-oi8oq День назад

      When money moves into a hood and fixes it. You got people that wanted that but are then are surprised rent/taxes go up a LOT to put in things the new people want or can be sold as great such as new sidewalks few are going to walk on, new park cleaning crews working constantly, fountains, roundabouts, ect. Which may sound great but government has a blank check attitude with kickback buddies. Anyway, happens to whites a lot more recently with Californication. I live in a town that hates locals. Always did even before the tourist came but loves any two elderly tourist about to drop 80 giant bucks. People here (including transplants, often originally tourist) are starting to see you can't make much off tourist since government keeps coming up with new fees and taxes. Only way to make money off these Gentrified businesses are taxes scams/grants which is a lot of work and eventually will run out. Then if lucky they sell to another Californian that makes the bakery a pizza shop, then it becomes a donut shop. It's deck chairs on the Titanic but looks good if you don't know the way it works. I'm white and not liberal btw but see this stuff become other things than the plan that was sold to people. Also our mayor is black as was the last one. It's a money thing and citizens are in the way.

  • @dr.shakalu8224
    @dr.shakalu8224 21 день назад

    Damn i thought this was a development companies slogan.

  • @calral7774
    @calral7774 21 день назад

    I remember my grandfather telling me about 71 when I was a child. Walnut hills side

  • @mattd.4133
    @mattd.4133 21 день назад

    I live in Southern Illinois and for the last 40 years they have been building large 2 lane highways around all of our small towns and all of our businesses are gone. Nobody stops anymore just Flys right by and most people are poor and white. So who can we blame?

  • @tonydialsr7190
    @tonydialsr7190 22 дня назад

    This was the same comment that a former Black Republican Councilman The late Leo Jackson stated that URBAN RENEWAL meant Black Removal. They wanted to come through the Glenville Community in Cleveland, Ohio. So here we are 2024 and the Glenville Community has been torn up. Just slickening. Black People wake up!

  • @JamesHunt-ey5gw
    @JamesHunt-ey5gw 22 дня назад

    And this happened through the entire country yet only in places where there were black people hints it was systematically done against black people by a racist federal, state and local government's this was only done to FBA'S ie foundational black Americans along with this and untold other thing's done by the government's and private sector's for 400-500 year's no one can factually say FBA'S ie foundational black Americans aren't owed reparations no sane moral person can deny this simple fact.......

  • @JsRazza
    @JsRazza 22 дня назад

    So what. My grandparents had their beautiful homes torn down in Harlem so the city could build projects. It happens to everyone. But some don't cry and complain about it.

  • @shopsshire9282
    @shopsshire9282 22 дня назад

    It seems it's like that in Cleveland now with the construction of on the east side near East 105th Street the extension with the extension of i-490 and the also the opportunity corridor..

  • @pleasemisguideme345
    @pleasemisguideme345 22 дня назад

    The Eisenhower Interstate Act single handedly did more damage to the fabric of American cities than any blighted area ever could. So many beautiful American cities were ruined forever. A dark day in America

  • @fidjet
    @fidjet 22 дня назад

    💜💚🇺🇲🌎🌏🌍👽🥊💪🧠

  • @edwardzamorski3711
    @edwardzamorski3711 22 дня назад

    WhenI grew up the city I was in was all white they done urban renewal to get rid of us white trash.

  • @farmhand6524
    @farmhand6524 23 дня назад

    blights no care 4 ppls

  • @aaroncone6778
    @aaroncone6778 23 дня назад

    It's so horrible, that all the folks that were in the way of "Urban & highway acts", were discarded like trash. Let's make sure things like this doesn't happen again..

  • @intothevoid3962
    @intothevoid3962 23 дня назад

    Oh please. How many white farmers have had their land divided this way. It happens all the time. Its called development. There was an on ramp on the street i grew up on, it was gone before i got my license. A loss for the whole neighborhood no matter what color your skin or whay country you got here from. Why does everything have to be seen as an attack on black people. I live in Dayton and I can tell you there is no shortage of black Americans in Cincinnati. They just push this shit to keep people racially charged. I swear, say anything to a black person and its cuz they black isnt it. Black owned, black neighborhood. Sounds like segregation to me not integration. Try community not black community

  • @CrazyBear65
    @CrazyBear65 23 дня назад

    They did the same bullshit when they built the I-495 beltway around DC. They cut streets and neighborhoods in half.

  • @CrazyBear65
    @CrazyBear65 23 дня назад

    In Pittsburgh they used "eminent domain" to _steal_ people's homes all along what used to be East Street and build I-279. I watched it happen. I have many good reasons for hating Big Brother's corrupt corporate government.

  • @yosquidd242
    @yosquidd242 23 дня назад

    In Denver, CO it was first called Zero Population Growth, before its run of non-white Mayors. Before the Super Max prison was built in the state, there was talk of plans to use certain schools in certain neighborhoods as detention centers as some western cities had local juvenile detention buildings across the street from a grocery, barber shop, and an apartment building all within a block of each on Downing Street. So it was a common sight in minority communities. And I remember certain community members disappearing similarly as portrayed in the Lovecraft Country Television series. Denver did present the Urban Renewal projects as minority building contractors set aside programs while funding without plans or any minority contractors identified in the bidding process, thus opening the fast wave of white women as minority contractors taking over as the principal figures receiving bank funding that produced gentrification on a furious scale. This was nothing but a steal first disguised as Urban Renewal. edit p.s. 11 percent is the highest population share the African-Americans ever reached, in total, in Denver! What were they afraid of?