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American Black Journal

Highways

A story about race and the nation’s highways. Historically, race has been a major factor in how cities across America developed. The construction of freeways was often done at the expense of black and brown people. One Detroit associate producer will glover looks at how highways are often considered symbols of structural racism because of why and where they were built.

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