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The second of four parts
The Happy Hour crowd on South Slope pops into the breweries and restaurants that have helped land Asheville on best-of lists, largely oblivious to what once stood nearby.
The adjacent Southside neighborhood was the biggest hub of Black life in Asheville, housing beauty and barber shops, funeral homes, groceries and hundreds of homes owned by Black residents who were pushed out by a controversial government program meant to revitalize blighted areas…