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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Neighborhoods that were subject to redlining in the 1930s tend to have higher levels of air pollution many decades later, a new study has found. The paper's authors looked at air quality data from 202 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...