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This is simply white flight 2.0—a second wave of migration. People sit on the grass at Washington Square Park on April 5, 2021, in New York City. Dia Dipasupil/Getty Image ...
[raw shortcodes=1] The term “white flight” is usually used to refer to a migration phenomenon in the post-World War II era. As people of color moved into predominantly white neighborhoods in ...
Nearly 50 years ago, after a string of race-related riots in cities across America, President Lyndon B. Johnson commissioned a panel of civic leaders to investigate the underlying causes of racial ...
It’s white flight, without the actual flight. At least two studies in the last year have provided data on this splintering, and the picture is not pretty. EdBuild, ...
Sometimes flight looked like being pushed out from the violence of the KKK and White mobs. But often it meant being pulled away, drawn to the promise of liberation and pleasure.
We continue our Detroit 2020 series on the 1967 riots looking back to look forward. This time we wanted to explore, white flight and what it meant to the makeup of the city.