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In ‘Luck of the Irish,’ housing market anxieties worsen racial tensions

    April 22, 2012

In a new production by the Huntington Theatre Company, a black mother in the fictional Boston suburb of Bellington is confronted with the potential loss of her home, because of a muddy sale to her grandparents long before. The play, “Luck of the Irish,” looks back to a time when upwardly mobile minority families — some were black, but others were Jewish — relied on white, Christian “ghost buyers” to gain access to bigger homes on leafy streets.

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