Advertisement Continue reading the main story“It was very much a place of its own,” Professor Nix said. Some black residents who are recent arrivals said that when they tell other black people elsewhere in the city where they live, they are met with a cocked eyebrow. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyBlack residents in Hampden said they did not face the kind of outright hostility that led previous families to flee. She also recalled a neighbor warning on a community message board that a “tall black guy” had been spotted walking around. “There’s this new Hampden, and there’s old Hampden,” Ms. Waithe said, standing along The Avenue, holding her daughter after the vigil.

Source: New York Times March 26, 2017 18:33 UTC