Aerial view of suburban Levittown, PA, circa 1959. Accessed at Wikimedia Commons. From http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/thumbnail429.html, public domain.

I want to spend the month here exploring and celebrating African-American history –which is of course US American history. Today’s item is not reason for celebration, but lifting the burden of the lies we tell about why Black people tend to live in segregated and inferior neighborhoods?–that is. Check it out:

White-Only Suburbs: The History You Didn’t Learn

Given the impact housing has on generational wealth, access to education, vulnerability to crime, even access to groceries, our country’s racist housing policies have dug a hole out of which African-Americans are still trying to climb.