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The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development will receive $500,000 for Claiborne from the Reconnecting Communities program, a new federal initiative that aims to bridge disadvantaged neighborhoods cut off by past infrastructure decisions. But that's far less than what the state has envisioned for the project.
When the Claiborne Expressway was built through the Tremé, it decimated what some remember as the Black Wall Street of New Orleans. It’s been called a textbook example of America’s racist highway history. Now, there’s a new federal program to address that past and a few ideas in New Orleans for how to best use the money.