"City of Refuge"

2020 Broaddus, Maurice [Gerald] (b. 1970). “City of Refuge.” Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Mur Lafferty and S. B. Divya [Divya Srinivasan Breed] (London: Titan Books, 2020), 163-181, with a note on the author on 162. PSt 

The story is set in a future bankrupt Indianapolis on Original Earth, or what remains after the rich have left to settle Mars and African Americans who can afford to have settled the moon and orbiting cities around it in experiment they call Muungano (Togetherness in Swahili). Those left behind include those who can afford to ensure clean air and water by building a dome over their neighborhood and those who can’t. The viewpoint character is from among those who can’t, an African American ex-convict struggling to survive. 2022 Broaddus is set in the same future. The African American author was born in England and raised and lives in the U.S.