Urban Crisis

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• SOURCE: Phenomenal World
  7/12/2021
  

  Long Crises: Kim Phillips-Fein Interviews Benjamin Holtzman

  While New York's mayoral campaign has invoked the "bad old days" of the 1970s, the city today is still experiencing the political-economic crisis that erupted 50 years ago. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/24/2021
  

  The Unknown History of Black Uprisings

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor reviews Elizabeth Hinton's new "America on Fire" and explains how it shakes up established accounts of a "good" and "nonviolent" civil rights movement giving way to protest and violence.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/13/2021
  

  The Shocking MOVE Bombing was Part of a Broader Pattern of Anti-Black Racism

  by J.T. Roane

  The Philadelphia Police Department bears responsibility for the deadly bombing of the rowhouse occupied by MOVE members, but the carnage shows a long pattern of indifference by multiple municipal departments to the health, safety, and quality of life of Black residents in the 1970s and 1980s.