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Monopoly Place Names Are Just As Redlined As Real Life Cities

by Artsjournal2

To wit: Cyril and Ruth Harvey, "who played a key role in popularizing the game, lived on Pennsylvania Avenue (a pricey $320 green property on the board); their friends, the Joneses, lived on Park Place. … The Harveys employed a Black maid named Clara Watson. She lived on Baltic Avenue in a low-income, Black neighborhood, […]

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48am on February 22, 2021