Black people in Charleston, South Carolina are no strangers to gentrification. Over the past several decades, due to “overtly racist policies and practices” to turn Charleston into a tourism hotspot, they’ve been forced out. They begrudgingly abandoned their historically Black communities because they could no longer afford high property taxes or elevated insurance costs which […]
32-year-old entrepreneur Keisha Credit says she has faced difficulty after inheriting a multi-million dollar home in Seattle, WA. Credit inherited the Central District property in 2020 after the death of her grandfather Daniel Duncan who purchased the home in 1953. However, Credit says she was faced with instant solicitation to purchase her home one day […]
A Oregon man is trying to make up for hundreds of years of oppression and the inequality in Black people face in America. Randal Wyatt, 36, of Portland, Oregon founded Taking Ownership PDX. “I’ve always had this idea of creating a platform of reparations where allies can contribute group economics that’s community based where they […]