Housing and Development Newsletter
For Black communities, lack of access to health care, fresh foods, safe housing and neighborhoods, and educational and employment opportunities continue to plague its members, the paper reports.
“This constellation of issues stems from the other multigenerational pandemic it represents: long-standing and virulent and anti-Black racism and the extensive systemic and practical effects of white privilege and supremacy,” the authors write.
“Our duty as archaeologists is to make sure that those histories are not forgotten,” they write. “They are precursors to the present, and these narratives and structural realities remind us that these conditions are not new nor are they ‘over.’ ”