The Time is Now.
WARNING: The attached article may be triggering for people of color and reopen old wounds for longtime residents. It is shared here for historical reference. It’s a terrifying thought. Hampden has a long seated reputation among the black community because of episodes like this from 1988 in the article below (note the date of the article). Hampden is a geographically barricaded neighborhood that white flight could escape to in the 1960s and ignore the social upheaval of civil