How University Expansion Has Uprooted Communities of Color Across the Country
Channel: ProPublica
Date: 2023-12-07

For more than six decades, public and private universities have bulldozed once-thriving Black and Latino communities to build dormitories, parking lots, research laboratories and other facilities, sometimes taking property through eminent domain. We discuss the past and present uprooting of neighborhoods of color and the harm suffered by families of color in the name of educational progress.

Read our "Uprooted" series: https://www.propublica.org/series/uprooted

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