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The Daily

Righting the Historical Wrong of the Claiborne Highway

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In the 1950s and ’60s, the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, one of the oldest African-American neighborhoods in the United States, was a vibrant community. But the construction of the Claiborne Expressway in the 1960s gutted the area. The Biden administration has said that the trillion-dollar infrastructure package will address such historical wrongs. How might that be achieved? Guest: Audra D.S. Burch, a national correspondent for The New York Times.

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So I wonder if you could sort of close your eyes and remember what life was like on

0:07.0

Clayborne Avenue when you were a kid.

0:09.9

Okay.

0:12.1

Now you know I was born in 1948.

0:15.5

So I have plenty of memories of Clayborne.

0:19.0

It was a festive place.

0:21.4

It was a place where you could hear people talking when you walked down the street.

0:25.6

You could actually even hear the people who were selling fruit, calling out the fruit

0:30.3

man or the guy who collected rags, howling about rag man.

0:35.7

You might hear a brass band playing because all the funeral homes were on Clayborne.

0:40.4

So you know, I mean it was basically like an old country town.

0:47.3

What is it like walking down Clayborne now?

0:50.7

I attempt not to do that.

0:59.9

From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernici.

1:03.0

This is the daily.

1:06.6

Last week President Biden signed a trillion dollar infrastructure package into law.

1:11.1

A package that the administration has long said would focus on racial equity.

1:15.6

This plan is important.

1:17.6

Not only for what and how it builds.

1:19.6

It's also important to where we build.

1:22.4

It includes everyone regardless of your race, your zip code.

1:26.0

And in talking about the kind of infrastructure programs such a plan might include, the Biden

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