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November 29, 2021

Brentin Mock

Brentin Mock is a staff writer at CityLab. He was previously the justice editor at Grist.

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Economics

Modern Redlining Continues to Define Neighborhoods in Cleveland

A real estate broker's maps recall the days when certain neighborhoods in the city were denied access to loans based on the demographics of the population.

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Environment

What Is the 'Climate Control' Conspiracy?

A D.C. city council member posted a video claiming that a recent East Coast snowfall is the result of wealthy families controlling the weather.

A woman and child walk down a street in the Fort Greene neighborhood where the director and artist Spike Lee once lived on February 27th, 2014, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.
Social Justice

Spike Lee's Gentrification Problem

Lee's role in gentrification is complicated, despite his vociferous criticism of the phenomenon, because in some ways he's responsible for the Brooklyn of today.