“We had stores. People owned things. Money was circulating around.' Rhode Island's capital is gearing up to provide reparations to Black and Indigenous people pushed out of their homes by urban renewal in the 1950s and '60s.
Terrell Osborne, of Providence, R.I., stands for a portrait, Monday, April 11, 2022, in front of an antique shop, that was a general store in the early 1960s, in what was then known as the Lippitt Hill neighborhood, in Providence.
As a child growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, in the 1950s and 1960s, huge swaths of his neighborhood of Lippitt Hill, a center of Black life at the foot of the stately homes of the city’s elite East Side, were taken by eminent domain for redevelopment projects. They’re looking to atone, at least initially, for what happened during urban renewal efforts of the late 20th century, a period that saw Black and Native American communities such as Lippitt Hill razed to make way for new residential and business developments that paved the way for the city’s modern economy, anchored around its universities and hospitals.
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