'While Black people did indeed make great strides ... the media’s portrayal of us was still mostly 2-dimensional: the tragedy of rising crime & failing schools, or the glittery exploits of professional athletes and rich entertainers,' writes SandyBanksLA
This photo was taken for Sandy Banks’ story on Black families living in San Fernando Valley neighborhoods that had for decades been whites-only.
that had for decades been notoriously whites-only. Two years earlier, my husband and I — who both grew up in Ohio in Black communities — had moved into one of those Valley neighborhoods, and wound up perpetually recalibrating what we loved and what we’d lost in the move.Suburban living offers a challenge to blacks that white suburbanites never have to face: coping with feelings of cultural isolation and alienation.
— but also by how little some fundamental issues have changed. Discrimination may not be as blatant today, but attitudes still protect and propel it.
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