The last bill President John F. Kennedy signed into law was the Community Mental Health Act of 1963, also known as the Mental Retardation and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963. The hope was that people who did not belong in psychiatric hospitals -- asylums, essentially -- could be mainstreamed, returned to their … Continue reading A fulfillment of the last bill JFK signed
Getting it right: The history of segregation and redlining in U.S. cities
"Blaming the HOLC maps suggests that we’ve found a villain for the complex web of social, economic, physical and environmental challenges facing low-income Black communities."
Dan Rodricks 