YORKTOWN — Grace Episcopal Church Yorktown announced it is offering a second year of its free speaker series this fall.

According to series organizers, the speakers will explore topics from the history of urban renewal and its impacts in our community today, childhood poverty in America, and the legacy of community displacement present both in film and from a panel of Reservation descendants.

Featured speakers:

Sept. 10, 6:45 p.m. — Johnny Finn — CNU Associate Professor of Geography

During the mid-20th century, slum clearance and urban renewal became vehicles through which cities remade themselves — bulldozing Black neighborhoods in the name of public and private development, entrenching racial segregation, perpetuating school segregation, encircling Black communities with highways and

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