Close to six decades after its outlaw in the federal government's Fair Housing Act of 1968, redlining still haunts Lansing. Redlining is denying someone credit necessary for buying housing based on ...

DALLAS, TX — Heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity were more common and linked to reduced access to healthy foods among people who live in neighborhoods previously subjected ...

In the penultimate of six brick row homes in Baltimore, Blair Scurry thought, “This can’t be happening to me.” She’d just learned she had bone cancer, Stage 3 osteosarcoma. The newly discovered tumor ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Members of the Caddo Parish Civil Rights Heritage Trail project team at LSU Shreveport, KTAL NBC 6 NEWS, and Red River Radio (NPR) are excited to announce the beginning ...

Systemic racism is a term we have all — hopefully — become conversant with during these past weeks; it is one of the most indestructible weapons used to obstruct people of color and our nation from ...

SPRINGFIELD — Redlining and gentrification were the latest topics discussed Thursday in a series of committee hearings spurred by the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus as its members lay the ...

Nate Johnson, 2011 president of St. Louis Realtors and presidential advisory group chair, says increasing the Black homeownership in the St. Louis region will depend on strong partnerships with ...

The effects of discriminatory government policies are still harming communities of color decades later, recently published research suggests. Neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia, that were redlined – ...