Residents of the Russell neighborhood that were around to witness the thriving Black business district were interviewed and told tales of a neighborhood that was before its time. Last February, WDRB debuted a story about the history of Louisville’s Old Walnut Street. During this Black History Month, it is important to remember a recurring theme of Black History that presents itself in Louisville’s past and present day: what is lost can be restored. The pandemic has forced the small businesses within the building to re-strategize and brace themselves for an unprecedented future that Louisville, and the rest of the world, has been thrusted into. Besides the scattered conversations of Chrome Camp students filling out of the building at the end of their NTI classes, the building is quiet.
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