In May, I thought a lot about how to protect community assets while supporting the basic needs of working families and considering what shapes a community’s identity. The English Avenue School, built in 1911, started as an all-White day school. In the 1950s, the Board of Education reassigned it as a segregated all-Black day school. In December 1960, 2,000 local residents gathered in its auditorium to pray before protesting segregation. The next day, the school was bombed, which was a painful moment for the neighborhood. Archive Atlanta reported that it was called “the worst racially-motivated bombings in the City of Atlanta.” Today, the building looks much as it did in 1960 and was officially closed by the city in 1995. You can see where the ceiling has collapsed, and the facade is falling apart. It’s a clear sign of Atlanta’s complicated history.