Medium – KnockLA: Digging Up White Roots: An Unsolved Murder in Long Beach Reveals Suburbia’s Long History of Racism
In contrast, the large swaths of red-graded “hazardous” areas in Long Beach contained oil fields and Black, and Latinx populations. Parts of these areas are currently low-to-middle class and majority populated by BIPOC residents, a historical trend mirroring research by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC).
In 2018, the NCRC published a report documenting the lasting-effects of redlining in the country.