'Last Black Man in San Francisco' review: This old house tells a story
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Jun 11, 2019
3 minutes
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Allow me to introduce "The Last Black Man in San Francisco." It's a movie about real estate, unreal gentrification cycles and what it means to rage against and embrace the place you call home.
It's focused on a particular part of the world. But it deals with historical truths that Chicago, among other cities intent on breaking half of its citizens' hearts with every new generation in the housing market, understands as well as anywhere.
There's a line that comes late in the movie, already quoted extensively
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