Gentrification Stories

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Time, for better or worse ultimately always begets change. Zeke's Kitchen, a well-known Detroit, Michigan east-side Soul Food restaurant has been devastated by the closi...

This excerpt is taken from the first time collaboration between authors Ran Walker and Sabin Prentis. The original collection of short stories explores the lives of four...

What eight thousand dollars will buy you in 1981 ain't what it'll get you today.

A painting of a complicated city.

New York is the city of dreams to some people. To others they see this city as a hell hole. This piece shows New York City from the perspective of an African American ma...

Another collection of random poems I've recorded as they came to me. Please vote and comment on the entries that resonated with you. I'd love to hear your thoughts :)

The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb... Roneisha Gibson is a young woman navigating the streets of Austin. Businesswoman by day, hustler by ni...

Daniel Diaz's life is forever changed when he runs away from his abusive stepfather and is forced to spend the summer with his biological father he's never met, Ryan Atw...

Tourists fall in love with Savannah as a relic of hospitality. Its residents are kind and affectionate, sweet like the tea they drink. Its live oak groves hang in histor...

The handpuppets who play their role inside the facade. Those who retreat without being responsible for their gentrification, gerrymandering, racism and fascism. There's...

A collection of poetry written by a Puerto Rican woman who is Queens born, and Brooklyn raised. Though Rachel is a Bronx resident nowadays, New York and it's five borou...

fading in and out of the layers of thought. 14 May 2015 2:43pm

Brooklyn, 1998. Love in the time before Facebook.

Friends discussing the gentrification of the East side of town, and a body that has been found. Another death happens, another body found. But is it related to the first...

During the day, he's just nice calm Mihai, always looking out for the little guy and trying to find his place in the world. At night, it's more of the same, but as High...