Here’s how highways have hurt Black Pittsburghers: On left is Downtown and the Hill District (Pittsburgh’s historic Black neighborhood, once compared to Harlem in its influence on Black American culture) and on right, what it looked like before I-579 & the Civic Arena were built
Imagine getting a hand drawn birthday card from your kid. Now, imagine that instead you got a photocopy of that birthday card -- or worse, just a small digital copy on a tablet -- AND that someone threw your kid's card in the trash in some corporate warehouse.
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