Month: November 2025

You Can’t Eat Home Runs: Hunger and Games on Atlanta’s Southside

.Reading time 34 minutes.

Editor’s note: This it the first post in our series for November, “Metropolitan Consumption.” By Clif Stratton Atlanta will mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Summerhill Riot (hereafter Summerhill Rebellion) in 2026.[1] The spontaneous revolt of the urban poor occurred on September 6, 1966 after Atlanta Police Department (APD) officer Lamar Harris fired three bullets […]

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November Theme 2025: Metropolitan Consumption

.Reading time 7 minutes.

By Ryan Reft It’s no secret that cities and their residents consume. They are critical markets for food, consumer goods, retail products, leisure, and services. They swallow land and sometimes, in that process, people; just ask Bronx residents who Robert Moses turfed out with highway construction or folks living in Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles, who […]

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