Media
April 21, 2022
LT/LA project director Dr. Johnny Finn talks about the environmental justice implications of a 200-acre coal terminal immediately adjacent to the formerly redlined neighborhoods in Southeast Newport News in this 6-minute documentary short.
April 12, 2022
LT/LA Project Director Dr. Johnny Finn delivers the 2022 Justine L. Nusbaum Lecture at Virginia Wesleyan University. The lecture, entitled “Social Murder and the Geography of Inequality” traces how past discriminatory housing policies and practices—from redlining to discriminatory lending—continue to reproduce economic, environmental, and health inequalities in the present day.
May 11, 2021
LTLA director Dr. Johnny Finn participated on a panel on race, segregation, and housing in Virginia with VA Attorney General Mark Herring, attorney Sarah Black, and activist Will Moffett, moderated by WAVY TV10’s Kara Dixon.
April 13, 2021
LT/LA director Dr. Johnny Finn was interviewed for this WHRO story on limited housing options for residents being moved out of Tidewater Gardens public housing.
April 11, 2021
Dr. Finn pens an op-ed in the Virginian-Pilot on the redevelopment of St. Paul’s Quadrant in Norfolk:
"When it comes to the St. Paul’s redevelopment project, we know how this movie ends because we’ve seen it before, in city after city, decade after decade, and at least twice in living memory here in Norfolk. St. Paul’s Quadrant is wedged east of downtown, north of Harbor Park and new casino site, and smack dab in the middle of extensive flooding and drainage projects. Profit interests are too strong, and protections for the city’s most vulnerable residents are far too weak. Widespread displacement will be the ultimate cost of this plan for St. Paul’s redevelopment.”
March 17, 2021
LTLA project director Dr. Johnny Finn was interviewed on screen by Soledad O’Brien for this BET documentary on gentrification and displacement in the St. Pauls’s area of Norfolk.
February 25, 2021
Dr. Johnny Finn participated in a virtual panel discussion on the history and ongoing impacts of racial discrimination with Richard Rothstein (author, Color of Law), Eugenia Jackson, and Jamilah Lecruise, sponsored by the Hampton Roads Community Foundation.
February 14, 2021
LTLA project director Dr. Johnny Finn contributed data analysis and mapping for this article that showed that in the City of Norfolk, the vast majority of housing vouchers are used in high minority, high poverty, and high social vulnerability neighborhoods, thus challenging the city’s claim that relying on housing vouchers is an effective way to integrate neighborhoods.
January 21, 2021
LTLA project director Dr. Johnny Finn contributed extensive data analysis and digital mapping for this Virginian-Pilot article on the durability of racial segregation in Norfolk, VA
December 2, 2020
Dr. Johnny Finn gave an invited lecture as a part of a series sponsored by the Virginia Geography Alliance, New American History at the University of Richmond, and Richmond Public Schools. In this lecture, geared toward high school students and teachers, Dr. Finn breaks down how a critical geographical perspective can help us understand the ongoing impacts of racial segregation in American cities, and think toward more racially just futures.
September 18, 2020
Dr. Johnny Finn gave an invited lecture at the College of William & Mary’s Center for Geospatial Analysis entitled “Segregation Forever: The Socio-Environmental Impacts of Racist Housing Policies in Hampton Roads, VA.
September 2, 2020
In this Zoom lecture, recorded live on Sept 2, 2020, Dr. Johnny Finn discusses the racist federal housing policies that effectively segregated American Cities across the 20th century, and the profoundly unequal economic, educational, and environmental impacts that they continue to have in the 21st.
August 27, 2020
Dr. Johnny Finn was a panelist on WHRO’s Another View, talking about the lasting impacts of redlining and segregation in Hampton Roads.
June 18, 2020
Dr. Johnny Finn interviewed for a WHRO story on housing discrimination in Hampton Roads.
February 28, 2020
Dr. Johnny Finn and research assistant Jakira Silas participate on a panel discussion on race, social justice, and GIS at the ESRI headquarters in Redlands, CA.
February 21, 2020
Research assistants Jakira Silas, Dominique Ardis, and Asia Farmer present at the 10th annual African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Interdisciplinary Conference at James Madison University. Their talk covered the history of segregationist housing policies in the US, the human toll of persistent racial segregation, and what this project is trying to do to challenge the "naturalness" of segregation.
February 2, 2020
Article about the Living Together / Living Apart project in the Williamsburg/Yorktown Daily.
January 29, 2020
Article about the Living Together / Living Apart project appears in the Daily Press.
January 24, 2020
Dr. Johnny Finn quoted in a Daily Press article about race, marriage, and segregation in Hampton, VA.
November 13, 2019
On Wednesday, November 13, 2019, LT/LA Project Director Dr. Johnny Finn was invited to give the keynote address at the Bank of America Neighborhood Builder Grant Award Ceremony. This event was to honor the Lackey Clinic of Yorktown and the Judeo-Christian Outreach Center of Virginia Beach, who each received a $200,000 grant to continue their non-profit work in the region. Read the full text of the keynote address here.
August 22, 2019
Dr. Johnny Finn participates as a panelist for a wide-ranging discussion on race, urban redevelopment, and gentrification in Norfolk, VA. The discussion, which took place at the First Presbyterian Church in Norfolk, VA, was attended by over 300 people. Watch the full video below:
August 21, 2019
The Virginian-Pilot writes about a panel discussion including Dr. Johnny Finn on urban redevelopment and gentrification.
March 24, 2019
Article about the Living Together / Living Apart project in the Virginian-Pilot.
March 7, 2019
Project Director Johnny Finn quoted in an article on poverty and migration in Norfolk, VA.
April 29, 2018
Dr. Johnny Finn published an opinion essay in the Virginian Pilot about the persistence of racially segregated neighborhoods in Hampton Roads 50 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act.
February 26, 2018
Project Director Johnny Finn recently went on Hampton TV with Alex Robinson and Jakira Silas to talk about the project. Watch the whole interview below.
