Historic redlining, a U.S. policy outlawed nearly 6 decades ago for segregating neighborhoods based on their racial makeup, still negatively impacts survival from breast cancer, according to results ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Wendyliz Martinez traveled from Pennsylvania to the Bronx to stay with her mom during the pandemic, she was looking for a way to balance childcare with her online graduate studies at Penn State.

The legacy of redlining—the 20th-century mapping practice that denied loans and other services to minorities based on their neighborhoods—continues to resonate in cities. New research from Virginia ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cierra was an associate writer for CNET's broadband team, covering all things home internet. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with a master's degree. Cierra is ...