Community Quote by Karl Alexander

Especially in black communities, we've been so groomed to stay where we are and not like people in the other neighborhoods. It's crazy. It…

— Ed Reed

“As a 2011 Brookings Institution study found, “compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high…

— J.D. Vance

“These efforts curtailed the ability of black people to buy better housing, to move to better neighborhoods, and to build wealth. Also, by confining…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Black behavior—not the wrenching housing and economic discrimination—was blamed for these impoverished Black enclaves.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Efforts to establish local cohesion and community investment are thwarted in neighborhoods with high turnover rates. In this way, eviction can unravel the fabric…

— Matthew Desmond

“compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high school or college graduates, homeowners, and not…

— J.D. Vance

“In addition, when a neighborhood's crime victims are portrayed as victims-sympathetically and without blame, as humans rather than as statistics-people living in other parts…

— Barry Glassner

“It is commonly thought that high-poverty neighborhoods are socially fragmented and suffer a weak sense of community, but that is mistaken (see, for example,…

— Karl Alexander

“The exclusion of blacks from high-skill, high-wage employment is rooted in Jim Crow and resistance to integration and is sustained through tradition, word-of-mouth network…

— Karl Alexander

“When people began to view their neighborhood as brimming with deprivation and vice, full of “all sorts of shipwrecked humanity,” they lost confidence in…

— Matthew Desmond

Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the way of…

— Huey Newton

When someone is in 'the struggle,' which many of our black communities are in, they are living with a lack of educational facilities, high…

— Kenny Smith