Righting the Historical Wrong of the Claiborne Highway

<p>In the 1950s and ’60s, the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, one of the oldest African-American neighborhoods in the United States, was a vibrant community.</p><p>But the construction of the Claiborne Expressway in the 1960s gutted the area.</p><p>The Biden administration has said that the trillion-dollar infrastructure package will address such historical wrongs.</p><p>How might that be achieved?</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/audra-d-s-burch?smid=pc-thedaily">Audra D.S. Burch</a>, a national correspondent for The New York Times. </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/signup/NTTD?smid=pc-thedaily">Sign up here</a> to get The Daily in your inbox each morning. And for an exclusive look at how the biggest stories on our show come together, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/the-daily?module=inline">subscribe to our newsletter</a>. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Generations of New Orleans residents have<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/us/claiborne-expressway-new-orleans-infrastructure.html"> dreamed of the day when the Claiborne Expressway might be removed</a>. President Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure package could eventually make that possible.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. </p>