Elm Thicket
Elm Thicket/Northpark has drawn the short straw for decades. Residents have historically been pushed out of their neighborhood, then pushed some more. “Our neighborhood used to be twice the size it is now,” Mimi Perez said. Perez and her family have lived in the neighborhood, on the same street, in the same home, for almost…
As a young girl in South Africa, Sue Berk learned the value of hard work and saving money. While working in advertising in New York City, she ate a bagel for lunch every day and skipped out on Starbucks runs with friends. She still shops at discount stores and doesn’t get her nails done to…
Dr. Myrna DartsonSpecial Contributor “The secret to success is constancy of purpose.” Benjamin Disraeli It has been more than a year since I wrote a column for CandysDirt.com concerning my and my neighbor’s efforts to save the history and maintain the character of the Elm Thicket/Northpark (ETNP) neighborhood. ETNP is one of several historic freedmen’s…
Dr. Myrna DartsonSpecial Contributor As a proud legacy resident of the Elm Thicket/Northpark (ETNP) neighborhood, I am watching the community where I was raised be systematically eliminated. My desire is to do everything I can to save my neighborhood. I hope you will help me. Beautiful cottage homes envelop this historic Black neighborhood. Many of…
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