Last summer, Shanequa Benitez borrowed her mom’s electric bike and pedaled up and down Yonkers’ notorious hills. Using her grandfather’s Vivitar 35-millimeter camera, the 34-year-old Yonkers native ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women who resided in neighborhoods that were redlined in the mid-1900s had worse survival from breast cancer.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The idea that people of low-income experience shorter life spans and higher rates of chronic disease does not necessarily come as much of a surprise. So it’s not shocking that living ...

U.S. military veterans who lived in what were once known as "redlined" areas had a higher risk for heart attacks and other cardiovascular issues, according to a new study by researchers at Case ...

The law was meant to be “a solution to redlining, but it didn’t work because it didn’t solve redlining and the underlying lack of generational wealth” among Black families, said Cook County Treasurer ...

The focus of my last article was the fracturing of the American Dream. How the impossible weight of poverty makes success unattainable. When I finished that piece, I read it ad nauseam, searching for ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division Kristen Clarke, left, listens as United ...

Shanequa Benitez's art exhibit is on display through early April. Benitez uses mixed media to show the effects of redlining on her community. Benitez is Yonkers Arts and the Municipal Housing ...

A nearly 80-year-old law intended to put distressed and tax-delinquent Chicago-area properties back to productive use has done little to improve or solve racial inequities in the city’s Black and ...