Is gentrification good or bad? It鈥檚 a topic in almost every American city, including those in the Triangle.
Jamila Davenport, 39, is African-American and has lived most of her life in Durham. To explore her own doubts about the rapid development of her hometown, Davenport recorded conversations with two people she knows 鈥� both lifelong Durham residents, one white, and one black. The conversations didn鈥檛 go exactly as Davenport had expected.
Davenport is one of the citizen storytellers in the Storymakers: Durham project.
吉彩网网站 is one of 15 stations across the country chosen to be a part of the innovative public media project called Localore: Finding America. The project is being put together by theand is funded in large part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
The project is produced by John Biewen, a producer with the and host of the. The project will explore the things that bring us together and divide us as a community, like race, class and faith.
Find out more and submit a written story of your own at.
