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As Providence, R.I., gears up to provide reparations to Black residents, officials are looking to atone for what happened during urban renewal efforts of the late 20th century. The approach builds off the blueprint in Evanston, a Chicago suburb.
Terrell Osborne knows well what happens when urban renewal comes to communities of color. As a child growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, in the 1950s and 1960s, huge swaths of his neighborhood of Lippitt Hill, a center of Black life at the foot of the stately homes of the city’s elite East Side, were…
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