A conversation with urbanist and cultural historian Davarian L. Baldwin, author of "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities"
I shd STOP! Sorry - but your U/Chi talk in tandem with Colum history made me think you might enjoy this post - about my brownskin kid's (and his parents') trip from a West Harlem hood where he grew up in the shadow of Colum to Hyde Park - where he's a freshman at the U. http://www.firstofthemonth.org/tiemann-place-to-hyde-park-in-sun-and-shadow/
Terrific stuff...My brother Tom was in the struggle - sorry for cliche - against Columbia for almost 40 years - His story's here http://www.firstofthemonth.org/brother-tom/- though that's a little light on the dope about his organizing work, which was pretty extraordinary. Kept our neighborhood - between 125th and Colum - from being gentrified for almost 20 years. Lost now though we keep hanging on - braved Covid to hold our 33rd Annual anti-gentrification street fair last September...more here on the organizing..http://www.firstofthemonth.org/after-action-report-alliance-memories/ Sorry if T.M.I.
I shd STOP! Sorry - but your U/Chi talk in tandem with Colum history made me think you might enjoy this post - about my brownskin kid's (and his parents') trip from a West Harlem hood where he grew up in the shadow of Colum to Hyde Park - where he's a freshman at the U. http://www.firstofthemonth.org/tiemann-place-to-hyde-park-in-sun-and-shadow/
Terrific stuff...My brother Tom was in the struggle - sorry for cliche - against Columbia for almost 40 years - His story's here http://www.firstofthemonth.org/brother-tom/- though that's a little light on the dope about his organizing work, which was pretty extraordinary. Kept our neighborhood - between 125th and Colum - from being gentrified for almost 20 years. Lost now though we keep hanging on - braved Covid to hold our 33rd Annual anti-gentrification street fair last September...more here on the organizing..http://www.firstofthemonth.org/after-action-report-alliance-memories/ Sorry if T.M.I.