An Unsparing New Geography of ‘American Apartheid’

Dr. Lawrence Brown, a community research scholar at the new Center for Urban Health Equity at Baltimore’s Morgan State University, plumbs the question of Black Americans’ relationship to the physical world: where they are, and are not, allowed to go; where they can, and cannot, live in cities; and how Jim Crow-era practices like racial housing covenants and redlining still echo today.