Roanoke’s Urban Renewal and Healing Systemic Racism

On Thursday evening, August 22, around sixty people filled the Gainsboro library’s meeting room to attend the League of Women Voters of the Roanoke Valley’s program: Roanoke’s Urban Renewal and Healing Systemic Racism.  Jordan Bell delivered an excellent presentation about how Roanoke’s urban renewal projects destroyed black communities and businesses. He first described the prosperity… Continue reading Roanoke’s Urban Renewal and Healing Systemic Racism