New documentary reveals how U.S. highway system dismantled Black communities, including Overtown
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 4, 2025
It’s 1956, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower just signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act. Across the nation, urban planners from dozens of cities faced a tough choice as they considered where to send the bulldozers:
Which neighborhoods would they tear down?
For the filmmakers behind “Interstate,” a documentary getting its world premiere at the Miami Film Festival on Friday night, the choice . . .
