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The supermarket is a museum of human reaching. It was once a sprawling field of brick buildings, leaning, but strong enough to hold families of working Black folks packed into apartments. The basketball courts vanished and so the kids nailed a milk crate to the top of an old wall, but then the wall got torn down too. It is easiest to think about gentrification in terms of what once was standing and what no longer is. But I think of it more often as a replacement of people and their histories.
