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Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now...
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Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those priced out of the Bay Area are looking for...
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Chapter 1: The Tipping Point
A police chief in Antioch leads a team to investigate citizen complaints. But some say the complaints mostly target newer black residents. A...
Chapter 2: Friday Night Lights
With the country’s No. 1 high school football recruit - Najee Harris - Principal Louie Rocha and the Antioch High School football team haven...
Chapter 3: How to Survive an Exodus
When African-Americans priced out of Bay Area cities like San Francisco, Fremont and Oakland move to suburban Antioch looking for better sch...
Chapter 4: Make Great America Again
A small group of Muslim families were meeting out of garages before they purchased an old dentist office for their new mosque. After the Isl...
Chapter 5: How to Change Your Mind
Iris Archuleta is the daughter of a Black Panther who grew up in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. She and her husband were part of the first...
Chapter 6: Reasonable Fear
More African Americans are now living in suburbs than anywhere else. And some of the country’s most recent controversial police shootings of...
Chapter 7: The Field
Antioch residents are finding it hard to ignore the increasing number of destitute people living on the streets. Last year, the number of pe...
Chapter 8: Rabbit Hole
It can be hard to get back on your feet when you’re starting from scratch — even when opportunity falls in your lap. We meet Kevin Kunze, wh...
Chapter 9: We Too Sing Antioch
A school counselor and local pastor arranges a middle school graduation celebration for African American students, but protests against the...