Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One Girls the Freedpeople's Colony of Roanoke

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Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One Girls the Freedpeople's Colony of RoanokeMajora Carter shows how brain drain cripples low status communities and maps out a development strategy focused on talent retention to help them break out of economic stagnation. "My musical, In the Heights, explores issues of community, gentrification, identity and home, and the question: Are happy endings only ones that involve getting out of your neighborhood to achieve your dreams? In her refreshing new book, Majora Carter writes about these