ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) – The city of Roanoke is working to right the wrongs of its past.
The Equity Empowerment Advisory Board is developing a plan that would help bring reparations to the victims and descendants of policies that destroyed the majority Black communities of Northeast, Gainsboro and Henry Street.
Wednesday, we explained that in 1955, Roanoke City Council declared the Northeast neighborhood a “slum and blighted area” and kicked off an urban renewal development process…