Modern-day Jim Crow: Phoenix still has a segregation problem

The price of segregation: Who pays and who profits in Phoenix?

Illustration via Getty ImagesWhite homeowners gain millions, while Black and Brown communities pay with their lives. Once promoted as “the winter playground of the Southwest,” Phoenix remains a city deeply shaped by segregation, where privilege dictates who gets to stand their ground and who is displaced — who is protected and who is left behind. Phoenix is the ninth-most gentrified city in the country, but “urban revitalization” is nothing more…

Modern-day Jim Crow: Phoenix still has a segregation problem

Phoenix’s segregation wasn’t an accident. It was deliberately designed, reinforced through policy, and sustained by economic and environmental inequality.