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20: Separate but Equal
Hayti District, Urban Renewal and the Destruction of Black Business
The Hayti district in Durham, North Carolina, was once a prosperous, self-sufficient black commercial hub supported by unionized tobacco jobs. The hosts discuss how "urban renewal" projects, specifically the construction of the Durham Freeway, destroyed the community by running a highway through its center. This pattern of destroying black business districts via infrastructure projects is identified as a recurring "play" used across America.