The three qualities that matter most in real estate also matter the most to graffiti artists: location, location, location. In Miami and Los Angeles, cities that contain some of the most expensive…
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A community can gentrify without losing its identity — examples from Pittsburgh, Boston and Newark of what works
How can neighborhoods gentrify without erasing their heart and voice? It’s an important question to ask now, I’d suggest, since many communities across the U.S. are at risk of losing their historical…
As the global musical phenomenon turns 50, a hip-hop professor explains what the word ‘dope’ means to him
After I finished my Ph.D. in 2017, several newspaper reporters wrote about the job I’d accepted at the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of hip-hop. “A.D. Carson just scored, arguably,…