The sign over 8 Mile Road at the Lodge Freeway is jarring: "Black people are being pushed out of Detroit."

Alana Walker of BLAC magazine writes:

That may or may not be true -- the city still hovers at around an 80% black population, though downtown is a little more white than in recent years -- but the sign is meant to promote indie filmmaker Jason Black’s new film Gentrified – Ethnic Cleansing: American Style, which addresses the effects gentrification in Detroit and other cities has on the black community.

Black’s project raised almost $180,000 through an IndieGoGo campaign [last September], and is hosting screenings in cities around the world including London, Atlanta, Houston and Chicago, where a similar sign went up earlier this month.

Strangely, no screening dates are set for Detroit.