It was taken from the family by the federal government’s D.C. Commission in 1931. Because they were Black. “The Presence of this house, with its colored occupants, so close to a white school ...

No one else would have had the chutzpah, or the clout, to so eviscerate a powerful, theocratic Black family and ... Todd Rosenthal’s recreation of a big house on Chicago’s South Side with ...