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Setting: A historically Black and Brown section of central Brooklyn where redevelopment and displacement sparked conflicts over housing rights, public space, and racial justice. Neighborhood groups organized around issues like zoning, affordable housing, and tenants’ rights. In March 2020, public meetings and hearings moved online because of the COVID pandemic. As need grew for accessing…
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Setting A large, historically white town outside Boston, where demographic and economic shifts triggered a backlash and galvanized the local political establishment. Conflict When an accomplished woman of color won a contentious town election, years of coordinated harassment followed online and offline. A citizen blog disparaged the winner, her supporters, the town’s immigrant community, the…
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The evening the Derek Chauvin verdict was announced on April 19, 2021, a young, multiracial group of anti-gentrification protestors marched down Vanderbilt Avenue in brownstone Brooklyn. The surrounding neighborhood, like many in the area, has gentrified rapidly in the past ten years. Diners were seated along the sidewalk, more than a year into the relentless…