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UC Townhomes evictions renew community frustration. In 1982, IBID Associates — led by Brett Altman, who would later serve on Drexel’s Property Management Board — purchased the block of Market Street ...
Former Black Bottom resident Andre Black passed photos around the audience, telling stories that reflect a community of close neighbors who looked out for one another. With the city of Philadelphia ...
The Black Bottom was a neighborhood that developed around the year 1854, stretching from Walnut Street to Lancaster Avenue, from 32nd to 40th streets. It later became a landing place for the mostly ...
Black Bottom was a predominantly black neighborhood within Detroit that was a critical part of the city’s culture and musical scene from the 1930s until the late 1950s. The homes and businesses ...
The Black Bottom neighborhood, formerly a cultural center for Black Nashvillians, will be commemorated with a historical marker. The once-vibrant neighborhood was largely razed as a result of ...
Black Bottom got its name not from the area's residents but from rich, dark soil farmed by 18th-century French settlers, according to the National Endowment for the Humanities.
EXCLUSIVE: Pittsburgh’s Black Bottom Film Festival (BBFF), hosted by the August Wilson African American Cultural Center (AWAACC), has inked a curatorial partnership with LA’s Micheaux Film ...
The Bottom's goal is to bring the Black community together after a neighborhood, also known as The Bottom, was destroyed in the 1950s.