Red Lines & Black Lives: The Policies that Created the South and West Sides

February 25, 2022

In this series, Sylvia Snowden discusses Redlining and its challenge to Black progress in Chicago.

 

Nedra Sims Fears

Nedra Sims Fears, CEO of the Greater Chatham Initiative, discusses how redlining impacts the South and West Sides of Chicago and its effect on generational wealth of Black Chicagoans.

 

ProPublica reporter Emily Hopkins

ProPublica reporter Emily Hopkins talks to Sylvia Snowden about the immediate negative impact redlining has on Black Chicagoans through the city’s traffic camera system.

 

Civil Rights Activist Ja’Mal Green

Civil Rights Activist Ja’Mal Green talks to Sylvia Snowden about the economic problems of urban communities, how Black Chicagoans are being repressed by financial institutions and the government and the protest he lead against Chase bank.