Remembering the Black Central District, Part One: Two Small Dogs and a Great Fire

by Charles MudedeThe colors of black nationalism in a neighborhood that's no longer black. Charles MudedeAs I prepared to take a picture of the symmetrically basic and boxy facade of the doomed Red Apple at the Promenade 23 shopping center, a middle-aged black man said to me that I had better take the picture quick, because the Red Apple would not be around for much longer. There was no humor in his words. He said them as plainly as someone giving useful advice. The disappearance of the big buil