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Stateside: Gas tax and road funds; scrutiny of Detroit demolitions; lost black Lansing neighborhood
Today on Stateside , we look back to the 1960s, a neighborhood in Lansing, mainly African-American, was destroyed to make way for the I-496 freeway. Plus, we’ll learn about a new effort to gather the lost history of that Lansing community.