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Kaia Niambi Shivers Ph.D.
Creative. Entrepreneur. Professor at New York University
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Blaxit for Rolanda Spencer occurred when thousands of Black families were forced to migrate to Los Angeles suburbs due to gentrification and an eroding inner city. While the move promised a better life in the early 80s, it was often met with hostile resistance by predominantly white and Latino neighborhoods. Dr. Spencer's family moved from #Inglewood to the Inland Empire when she was a little girl. Let's just say, no one brought them a desert that welcomed them to the neighborhood. http://ow.ly/MCjq50xkKLk
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