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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SOUTH BEND — In the late 1940s, Lynn Coleman's parents moved from Mississippi to the LaSalle Park neighborhood to escape Jim Crow laws. But when they got here, they were confronted with another form ...

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 ...

A discriminatory 1930s-era housing policy created something called “redlining” which has had long-lasting effects on American society and the economic health of minority households, in particular. Let ...

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 ...

Redlining is the term used for the common 20th century practice where African Americans were discriminated against in housing markets and excluded from being able to obtain fair mortgages on account ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — San Diego officials are trying to solve the city’s housing crisis and its relative racial segregation simultaneously with new incentives that encourage more housing for low-income ...

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 ...