click to enlarge Resisting Gentrification: Then & Now is the theme for the fourth annual Gentrification Conference hosted by 540 West Main and City Roots Community Land Trust. The two-day event will be held virtually and in-person with a focus on the history of Rochester’s housing segregation and activism.
Calvin Eaton, founder of 540 West Main, says the event will educate the people who will be directly affected by community development.
“People can’t even know what options there are (and) how we as a community speak to these issues if they don’t have the education about why Rochester specifically looks the way that it looks,” says Eaton.
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Updated February 1, 2021, 2:39 p.m.
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âOut of a Crisis: The Voices of Our Studentsâ is a new series, launched by the Globeâs Great Divide team, that publishes student essays, poems, artwork, and videos featuring teenage perspectives on learning and living amid a pandemic. The stories are
Editorâs note: Last fall, Jasmine, a sophomore at a public four-year university in Massachusetts, received an e-mail from one of her professors telling her she was failing her class. This essay is an edited version of Jasmineâs belated response to her professor. The 20-year-old, a graduate of a Boston high school, says she never received a response.