guardian:The end of “Harlem of the West”At Saint John Coltrane Church, the archbishop wails on the s
guardian:The end of “Harlem of the West”At Saint John Coltrane Church, the archbishop wails on the saxophone and the pastor plays the upright bass. This week, 35 years after Coltrane being canonized, the church found a notice of eviction on its door. Its departure will mark the shuttering of one of the few remaining jazz venues in the neighborhood once known as the “Harlem of the West.”“They want my community out of the city … They want the African culture, but they want to get rid of the people that brought it here and keep it alive,” said Brahmajyoti Lee, a founding member of the church.Read more about how gentrification is affecting historically black San Francisco neighborhoods in The Guardian. -- source link