Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality [Deborah N. Archer]

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Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality [Deborah N. Archer]

Experts have warned that the U.S. is lagging behind other countries when it comes to our infrastructure – whether it be roads, railways, bridges, or public transit (and don’t get Chicagoans started on potholes). However, Deborah N. Archer, President of the ACLU and professor and associate dean at New York University School of Law, warns that we can’t repair our infrastructure without first coming to terms with the troubling history behind it. She shares that while government-sanctioned racism was finally deemed illegal after the successes of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, officials across the country turned to infrastructure to protect segregation. Archer joins us to uncover the hostility built into our everyday environments and explain why existing Civil Rights law is insufficient to address the challenges we face today.

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