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New Documentary Premieres Dec. 8, 8:30 p.m., on WHRO TV 15.
In the 1960s, residents wanted a thriving Black neighborhood in Newport News, Virginia, to keep growing. White city leaders wanted that land for a new college. Only one side had the power of eminent domain. The Johnsons, one of the last families in the neighborhood, tell the nearly forgotten story of a college expansion like the ones that broke up Black communities across Virginia and the country.
James Johnson became the self-appointed historian of his vanishing neighborhood.
Watch this documentary produced by the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO and ProPublica. Airs Friday, Dec. 8 at 8:30 p.m. Set a reminder to tune in.
