Neighborhood & City Initiatives
In a June 12 email, Pres. Fry promised to create programs Boosting Support for Local Businesses
In a June 12 email, Pres. Fry promised to create programs Boosting Support for Local Businesses
We welcome that move and we ask that Drexel's Task Force follow the guidelines of 'Black Stimulus' to reinvest in the community surrounding us, where Drexel's expansion has disproportionately displaced African-American population, created food desert and increased police presence and surveillance of BIPOC. We demand that Drexel address racial harm it has caused in West Philly. Black Philly Radical Collective has outlined that economic justice should be about addressing how current policies perpetuate racial and economic injustice in black communities and we as Drexel must pledge to undo the effects of those policies by "We demand a participatory approach to public budgets that is under community control to ensure that resources are equitably distributed and meet the needs of Black communities which have been purposefully and systematically under-resourced." -- Black Philly Radical Collective
We welcome that move and we ask that Drexel's Task Force follow the guidelines of 'Black Stimulus' to reinvest in the community surrounding us, where Drexel's expansion has disproportionately displaced African-American population, created food desert and increased police presence and surveillance of BIPOC. We demand that Drexel address racial harm it has caused in West Philly. Black Philly Radical Collective has outlined that economic justice should be about addressing how current policies perpetuate racial and economic injustice in black communities and we as Drexel must pledge to undo the effects of those policies by "We demand a participatory approach to public budgets that is under community control to ensure that resources are equitably distributed and meet the needs of Black communities which have been purposefully and systematically under-resourced." -- Black Philly Radical Collective
Research indicates that, as a result of aggressive gentrification initiatives run by Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania since 1997, the African-American population in certain parts of University City has declined by at least 29%.
Research indicates that, as a result of aggressive gentrification initiatives run by Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania since 1997, the African-American population in certain parts of University City has declined by at least 29%.