| Sad lessons from urban renewal in San Francisco (Richmond Times-Dispatch) |
| SAN FRANCISCO -- Holding her cane and shuffling carefully down the sidewalk in the city's Jazz Preservation District, 88-year-old Leola King stopped and looked at the words stamped in concrete: Leola King's Birdcage, 1505 Fillmore. Today, the site of King's 1960s nightclub is a Starbucks on the ground floor of a condominium tower. A half-century ago, this neighborhood was nicknamed "Harlem of ... |
| 11/21/2008 |
| S.F. Still Troubled By '60s Urban Renewal (CBS 13 Sacramento) |
| The government, using race as a factor in its decision, decreed the "Harlem Of The West" blighted and forced thousands of people from the neighborhood by way of eminent domain. The din of bulldozers and wrecking balls replaced the saxophones and snare drum-raps with the promise of a better neighborhood. |
| 11/09/2008 |
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