The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore’s Racial Divide  Audiobook (Free)

The crisscrossing stories of Mark, a white devout Christian who sells his suburban home to move to Baltimore’s inner city, and Nicole, a dark mother determined to keep West Baltimore for the suburbs, chronicle how the region became so deeply segregated and why these fault lines persist today. Mark and Nicole personify the enormous disparities in usage of safe housing, educational possibilities, and decent careers. As these personas pack up their lives and change areas, journalist Lawrence Lanahan examines what it will require to save lots of our towns and communities: Do we put cash into poor, segregated neighborhoods? Or do we move family members out into areas with more chance? This eye-opening accounts of how a city creates its black, white, wealthy, and poor areas shows that these problems are not intractable but they are destined to persist until each of us-despite living in individual worlds-understands that we have something at stake.