Podcast: Home was where the freeway is

Photographs of Nichelle Brunson Monroe’s members of the family are proven on placards in a park devoted to the primary Black residents to settle in Santa Monica on the flip of the final century.

(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Occasions)

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In Santa Monica throughout the Fifties and ‘60s, metropolis leaders evicted lots of of Black households to construct what ended up being the ten Freeway. However now, in an act of civic penance, Santa Monica is making an attempt to convey a few of these households again. It comes at a time when municipalities throughout the US are reckoning with their racist actions from the previous.

We’ll speak about Santa Monica’s try and redress a historic unsuitable. And we’ll additionally discuss to a girl whose household was certainly one of many Black households that Santa Monica desires to make proper by.

Host: Gustavo Arellano

Friends: L.A. Occasions housing reporter Liam Dillon, and Santa Monica native Nichelle Monroe

Extra studying:

Santa Monica’s message to folks evicted way back for the ten Freeway: Come house

Freeways power out residents in communities of colour — once more

Tour Santa Monica’s once-vibrant Black neighborhoods, almost erased by racism and ‘progress’