St. Louis Anthropocene: displacement & replacement
JJPA brief essay about St. Louis' notorious eminent domain history--
--along with 2 recent St. Louis Post-Dispatch articles about "urban renewal" projects that are scheduled to reoccupy the Mill Flats area, which hosted the most notorious episode of displacement of African-American communities: the Chouteau Greenway project (will it serve or displace low-income St. Louisans?); and SLU's Mill Creek Flats high-rise project, which certainly will, and whose name seems to me an especially tone-deaf if gutsy move...
https://humanities.wustl.edu/features/Margaret-Garb-St-Louis-Eminent-Domain
Mapping Detention and Toxicity
The city of Adelanto is part of San Bernardino county, located in northern Inland Empire by the Mojave Desert. Adelanto holds the California’s largest detention center.
This timeline tracks how California state and local governments tackled the evolving COVID-19 crisis since the first case was detected.