On My Block

12th & Chicon: Preserving the Community’s History

03.23.2017 - By KUT & KUTX StudiosPlay

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On the East Side, development and rising property costs continue to force the African-American community out. With such rapid migration, how have the neighborhood’s history and culture and the city’s African-American population been preserved? LaToya Devezin, the community archivist at the Austin History Center, spoke to KUT’s Jennifer Stayton about the work of local archivists […]

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