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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Financial District in trouble


Financial District in trouble

"In a troubling sign of how slow the economy is recovering, the Hub’s Financial District now has the equivalent of two and a half Hancock Tower’s worth of vacant space...."

(1901) William Hooper Councill’s Letter to the White People of Alabama

  Most scholars of today imagine Booker T. Washington as the major accommodationist and black political conservative of the era.  There we...