About this Event
How do historically racist structures and events, like redlining, continue to impact people’s lives in significant ways? Join Mark Latta as he explores this issue.
Redlining, the practice of denying mortgages and home ownership on the basis of race, was a national policy that formally segregated metropolitan neighborhoods across the United States and targeted predominately Black communities for disinvestment, dispossession, and denial of services. Although formally outlawed, the legacy of redlining continues to impact neighborhoods through poverty, violence, and a public health crisis of premature death.
This presentation defines redlining, discusses its historical origins, and identifies how it continues to inscribe itself in urban geographies. Copies of original redlined maps will be shared, and resources will be offered on challenging the legacy of redlining.
Light refreshments will be served.
Indiana Humanities’ One State / One Story program invites Hoosiers to engage deeply with a book as part of a statewide conversation tied to our current theme.
Brightlane Learning is honored to have been selected as one of 30 organizations across Indiana to host this year’s
About Mark Latta:
Mark Latta is an author, advocate, and engaged educator focused on community repair, using asset-based approaches in community development and community remembering that cultivates joy and dismantles oppression. He gained his first experience teaching at Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility and has over twenty years of experience in developing high-impact projects in traditional classrooms as well as within non-traditional learning spaces such as prisons, shelters, community schools, bus terminals, and the front yards and porches of neighborhood homes.
Latta is currently the Vice President of Positive Deviance, Culture, and Research at The Learning Tree and its sister nonprofit organization, Roots International. In this position, Latta is focused on harnessing residents' gifts, talents, and dreams to undo the cultural, public health, and moral crises of redlining and racially and class-motivated economic dispossession.
Mark lives in the Near Eastside of Indianapolis with his wife and daughter.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Brightlane Learning, 2955 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, United States
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