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 ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – With fair housing being one of the biggest issues in Jacksonville, there are efforts underway to make sure everyone is treated the same when it comes to finding a place to live.

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 long-term, systemic consequences of structural racism can be challenging to see, quantify, and communicate. But an online tool developed by Jaime Madrigano, an associate professor in the ...

Washington, D.C., has policies in place that mitigate the lingering effects of government housing redlining on education opportunity. No longer tethered by their homes’ geographic location, families ...

Systemic racism, including the practice of redlining, has had an enduring effect on health outcomes in people living with HIV, including time to viral suppression. According to Encyclopedia Brittanica ...

A wide performance gap between white students and black students has persisted in D.C. public schools for generations. Lawmakers can help close this gap today, and at the same time, erase any ...

Dallas has a new plan to get banks to invest in underserved areas and end the effects of racist lending practices that were outlawed many years ago. Residents say some parts of the city still show the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...