Uprooted: What a Black Community Lost When a Virginia University Grew
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- Опубликовано: 8 дек 2023
- This short documentary reveals a Black community’s decadeslong battle to hold onto their land as officials in Newport News, Virginia, used eminent domain to establish and expand Christopher Newport University.
“Uprooted” is directed by Brandi Kellam, who grew up in the area and has spent more than two years investigating this story. She reported the story with Louis Hansen of the Virginia Center for Investigative Reporting at WHRO. It is produced by ProPublica’s Lisa Riordan Seville, with cinematography, editing and post-production by VCIJ’s Christopher Tyree and graphics by ProPublica’s Mauricio Rodríguez Pons.
Watch the documentary, and read all of ProPublica and VCIJ’s series, also called “Uprooted,” which explores how Virginia universities expanded by dislodging Black communities. propub.li/46SKTOb
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“There’s always a price for progress.” What a telling statement. Great work by ProPublica, once again.
I grew up in a community in Portland Oregon that no longer exists due to a freeway and hospital expansion. After all the families were forced out, the land sat empty for over 20 years. It's sad.
Wow - a very moving and powerful documentary. I'm currently working on a similar project about Columbia University and Manhattanville/West Harlem, so sad how this kind of story seems to just keep repeating itself. Thanks making this, such important work
This story is devastating. To think of all these people working so hard to build themselves a safe neighborhood just to have it all ripped away… heart wrenching. They deserve justice.
Shoe lane and Prince Drew Rd. Was my grandmothers and great aunts land. Now Christopher Newport's parking lot 😢
Having cleansed most of the area of Black residents who had every right to live and build their own community there - some achievement. And the guy most likely sleeps well, ever so pleased with himself. The price of progress is okay, if those who benefit pay it. This is very different.
Honestly, kinda hurts to watch this. Got a long way to go before the U.S. gets where it needs to be. Thanks for telling this story.
When you hear the words 'systemic racism', this is but 1 of so many examples baked into the good ole US.
This happened with University of Illinois Chicago as well. Same story almost word for word.
Same thing with Harlem in the 60’s. Columbia University tried to gentrify Harlem then , they were succeeding with the gentrification of midtown on the west side predominant Irish communities. Harlem fought back , then came the drugs , the war , the breakdown of Harlem. Later in the late 80’d , early 90’s came the French speaking Africans flooding Harlem to cover the loss of African Americans(Originals) Now its HARLEM Gentrified successful. Took a minute but can’t fight what you can’t , don’t or refuse to see.
At first, I thought it was Maxwell St. in Chicago.
GOD HELP US! I NO ITS NOTHING TOO IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU. WE HAVE SUFFER ENOUGH BY THE HANDS OF OUR OPPRESSORS. IN JESUS NAME AMEN🙇🏾🙏🏾🤲🏾🙏🏾🙇🏾
Im sick over these effin stories.😡
CUT THE DAMN CHECKS! 🥸
😤 yes
They bought the properties.
@@lc6636I guess someone has to explain to you what imminent domain is eh? Where the government pays you what it thinks is market value and you must move. The lawsuit failed to stop them so people began to sell because they had no choice. What they were paid is a drop in the bucket as to what it would be worth now, if they were not forced to move. Just as they built their community in the middle of nowhere the college could have done the same somewhere else. They chose to build the college in the center of that community and expand it over and over into the surrounding community. They used government to disrupt the community intentionally, instead of relocating where it would not disrupt a community, as if that community had no rights.
Imminent domain violates our rights as Americans / part of a collectivist dream as well as a capitalist one. It should end, along with property taxes that drive out original owners as prices/taxes go up. True financial education in schools would also help people make better real estate decisions and anticipate opportunities and risks.
The local native population of Palm Springs negotiated well. They own every other property, checkerboard style. Ad property values rose, they had the freedom to rent out and live in nicer homes elsewhere, for example.
It's heartbreaking to hear how the white folks just railroaded over the black community for their own means,, like they didn't exist. And it still happens. We are all created equal... ☮💟
And never stuck for a justification, either.
The forcing out of people who are -or and working class to expand universities is nit new. I attended grad school at the the University of Texas, Austin 50 years ago. They engaged in the same behavior. Many of us students tried to oppose it but were basically ignored. There were plenty of other neighborhoods they could have overrun, but those were occupied by more well off folks, including professors and administrators.
Most of the poor and working class folks displaced were of Mexican and African descent. People had worked so hard to own many of those houses. If I remember correctly, they used the right of Emminent Domain to take those homes.
why you turn off comments for the guy crushed under bottles of whisky conveyer?
Why are the idiots from that Bacardi accident not in prison
I remember Mitch mCONnall asking why we should pay reparations for things our ancestors did. This and many other systematic racist acts against the black community is why. White people think they are innocent from what their ancestors did. Maybe, one could convince themselves of this. Until I educated myself I thought this way. No one alive is innocent of the systemic racism we all benefit from, if you are white. In his life, and all of our life times that are currently alive or dead, black people and people of color have had to sacrifice so that whites could prosper.This is just one example why there should be reparations, Mitch mCONnall These universities and our government need to atone for these terrible acts of systematic racism. The white people of this town were afraid of black people so they went to the government and expressed their fears and the government jumps in and saves the day for these white folks. Think of the generational wealth that was lost because of this. This is just one case. This has happened all over this country. The laws in this country have got to change. The racist lawmakers that allow this stuff to continue with out any consequences have got to be voted out! We need more stories like this. We need the corruption to end. We need a new system that is fair for ALL. White people need to educate themselves about the real true history of our country. It is easy to do now with the internet. White privilege is a real thing. It has nothing and everything to do with money. You don't need money to have privilege you just need a white meat suit. Nice reporting ProPublica! I hope there are more reports like this to follow!
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