What Next - Can a Highway Be Racist?
Why federal civil rights investigators are looking into a Texas highway project.
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Show Notes
Houston residents and elected officials are trying to stop the largest urban highway project of their lifetimes -- one that would clear out more than 1,000 homes in primarily Black and Latin neighborhoods and, they say, introduce additional flooding and health risks. Now, residents have a powerful new ally in Washington: the Biden administration. The fate of I-45 may tell us something about what 21st-century infrastructure will look like.
Guests: Tomaro Bell, Houston resident and community leader, and Oni Blair, executive director of LINK Houston.
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