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The last of four parts
The steady dwindling of Asheville’s Black population shows no sign of abating, but slowing or reversing this decades-long decline has no simple solutions.
As Asheville Watchdog’s four-part series has shown, young Black people are leaving the city for better opportunities, and residents who remain are fragmented, lacking the cohesion that once thriving African American neighborhoods provided…