Day: July 24, 2020

COMMUNITY FOCUS: New Hill Development

VINEGAR HILL’S RAZING is symptomatic of institutional racism that is as evident now as it was in 1964 when the first bulldozer demolished the neighborhood as a part of the city-sanctioned “urban renewal project.” Families were forced into public housing, livelihoods were destroyed, and Cville’s Black community continues to bear the burden of deliberate displacement.