The story of a racially diverse neighborhood’s strife with a major road was brought to the University of Utah’s Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building Tuesday night in the film screening of “East L.A. Interchange,” a documentary by Betsy Kalin.
The East L.A. Interchange is the busiest freeway in the world. It also happens to be built through and directly on top of an incredibly diverse and well-known neighborhood called Boyle Heights. “East LA Interchange” highlights what used to be one of the most ethnically and racially diverse neighborhoods in the country and its subsequent struggles with gentrification, redlining and abrasive construction.