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Neighborhoods with MLK streets are poorer than national average and highly segregated, study reveals

  • Written by Sweta Tiwari, Post Doctoral Fellow in Geospatial Institute, Saint Louis University
Neighborhoods with MLK streets are poorer than national average and highly segregated, study revealsThe United States has 955 streets named after Martin Luther King Jr..Katherine Welles/Shutterstock, CC BY-SA

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Poverty rates are almost double the national average in areas surrounding streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., according to our recent study, and...

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