Dr. Amanda Boston, Dr. Brandi Thompson-Summers, and Maya Kearney on Gentrification in Historically Black areas Replay Event - Click Here Join us for a discussion about shifting meanings of home for Black communities andneighborhoods facing gentrification. Drawing on their experiences as residents andresearchers in Washington, D.C., Brooklyn, New York, and Oakland, California, scholarsBrandi Thompson Summers, Amanda Boston, and Maya Kearney will share insights aboutchallenges Black urban dwellers face in the context of exclusionary redevelopment. Theywill also discuss practices of joy, creativity, connection, and resistance that Blackcommunities use to assert their humanity and their right to the city.This event is part of our year-long exploration on the theme of "Home, What does it looklike now?" How can we reconsider home in the 21st century as we cross states and bordersseeking comfort, safety and identity? Against the backdrop of a global pandemic and statesanctioned violence against black bodies, the Center for Black Visual Culture...