YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – When Jaladah Aslam, president of the Youngstown Warren Black Caucus, was growing up in Youngstown, neighborhoods were filled with playgrounds and working people.
On a recent trip home to Austintown from attending church on Youngstown’s South Side, she noticed the number of vacant lots.
“It just looks different,” Aslam says. “The people aren’t there. The life is not there. I’m not saying that the city is dead … but it is quite a bit different.”
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