Heaney talks segregation on ‘Pressroom

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Jim Heaney discusses his story last week on segregation in Western New York with David Lombardo on The Capitol Pressroom. Heaney recounted how Erie and Niagara counties are the sixth-most segregated metropolitan region in the nation and Buffalo the 17th most-segregated city, in which 85 percent of Blacks live east of Main Street.

 

In case you missed it, here’s our other reporting related to the supermarket massacre that left 10 people dead.

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• East Side residents are hopeful, yet skeptical, that the shootings will prompt change.
• Images in the wake of the carnage.
• Breaking coverage in the aftermath of the shootings.