Modern-day Jim Crow: Phoenix still has a segregation problem

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White homeowners gain millions, while Black and Brown communities pay with their lives. Once promoted as “the winter playground of the Southwest,” Phoenix remains a city deeply shaped by segregation, where privilege dictates who gets to stand their ground and who is displaced — who is protected and who is left behind…

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