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Podcast: Come and Take It: The Eminent Domain Podcast
Episode: Brandi Kellam and Louis Hansen on the Displacement of the Shoe Lane Community
Description: Investigative journalists Brandi Kellam and Louis Hansen have uncovered the story of the Shoe Lane community in Newport News, Virginia, a middle-class black neighborhood that has been largely displaced and thwarted in its plans for growth by the establishment and expansion of a local university. Louis and Brandi's work underlines the true impacts of community displacement in the wake of eminent domain, and the groups who disproportionately suffer those impacts.  Find their work here: https://vcij.org/stories/how-virginia-college-expanded-by-uprooting-black-neighborhood https://www.propublica.org/series/uprooted  Please share yo...