Transportation

A brief history of how racism shaped interstate highways

Old Rondo Avenue
Some of the country's highways were built through existing Black and brown communities. St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood — once home to 80 percent of the city's Black residents — was razed to construct Interstate 94 (left), causing the loss of 700 homes, around 300 mostly Black-owned businesses, and a significant drop in population and homeownership in the area.
Jim Mone | AP 2010