From San Francsco Magazine [1]:
Once home to the famous Fillmore and a thriving black middle class, San Francisco has suffered the steepest drop in African American population of any major U.S. city-and no longer has enough black residents to fill the seats in Monster Park. As their progeny disperses, the matriarchs and patriarchs of prominent families fight on in a traumatized Bayview, the last black community in what's supposed to be one of the greatest cities on earth...[Read the full article [1]]
Also, recently in The Washington Post [2]:
In Parts of U.S. Northwest, a Changing Face:
Economics Drive White Gentrification of Core Black Neighborhoods of Seattle and Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Already the whitest major city in America, Portland is rapidly becoming even whiter at its core.
"The heart of the black community is gone," said Charles Ford, 76, a black activist whose neighborhood in Portland has flipped in recent years from majority black to majority white. "There ain't no center anymore."
Charles Ford, a longtime resident of Portland, Ore., talks with new neighbor Tara Heiggelke. Gentrification is altering neighborhood demographics.
About 150 miles north in Seattle, the nation's second-whitest major city, the same process of downtown demographic bleaching is accelerating for the same reasons...[Read the full article [3]]
Thoughts?