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    MacArthur grant recipient's latest public work looks at the history of redlining through 100,000 red tulips

    by Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune Oct 20, 2022 5 minutes
    Amanda Williams hugs her daughter Aya Burns, 9, as they listen to Mayor Lori Lightfoot give a speech in Chicago's Washington Park neighborhood before planting tulips on Oct. 15, 2022. Williams planned the event alongside Emerald South Economic Development Collaborative for a day of neighborhood beautification that is part of her project "Redefining Redlining", with planting tulips on vacant ...

    CHICAGO -- By spring, the intersection of 53rd Street and Prairie Avenue in Chicago will be awash in a sea of red tulips — 6 acres of them to be exact, planted Oct. 15 by artist Amanda Williams, 2022 MacArthur grant recipient, South Side residents, and the Emerald South Economic Development Collaborative.

    The neighborhood beautification is part of Williams “Redefining Redlining” project that calls attention to the effects of redlining, the practice of systematizing discrimination based on where someone lives. The practice that denied members of the Black community the chance to invest in property from 1933-1968 continues to reverberate across the country. Racially restrictive covenants made popular by the real estate industry marked certain areas as undesirable if people of color lived there. While whites could build wealth through equity in homes, redlining enforced segregation and created a wealth gap from

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