Building the Black City AC25 The Pole family

The Pole family

racing across the Arctic Circle and the mountains of Europe

In this highly politicized terrain

guaranteed to spark their imagination

With fascinating research from the field of motivation science and compelling stories of people who learned to motivate themselves

Building the Black City AC25 The Pole familyA new way of seeing Black historythe sweeping story of how American cities as we know them developed from the vision, aspirations, and actions of the Black poor. Building the Black City shows how African Americans built and rebuilt thriving cities for themselves, even as their unpaid and underpaid labor enriched the nation's economic, political, and cultural elites. Covering an incredible range of cities from the North to the South, the East to the