- Many Black families in East Buffalo, New York, remain trapped in intergenerational poverty.
- Elsewhere in western and upstate New York, Black families keep running faster, only to fall farther behind.
- Artificially depressed property values deny most Black families the primary asset — homeownership — that white families use to escape poverty and join the middle class.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The grapevines of Grape Street are gone, now. The cherry trees of Cherry Street were buried by the expressway that tore this neighborhood in half, along with the house where Veronica Hemphill-Nichols was born. Arson destroyed the mansion on Peach Street; three more houses in the Fruit Belt burned the same night.