Joseph Margulies is a civil rights attorney and a professor of the practice of law and government at Cornell University. He is the author of What Changed When Everything Changed: 9/11 and the Making of National Identity.
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When a distressed urban neighborhood gentrifies, all the ratios change: poor to rich; Black and Brown to white; unskilled to professional; vulnerable to secure. Vacant lots and toxic dumps become condos and parks. Upscale restaurants open and pawn shops c... SEE MORE