The Justice Department has secured $122 million from a dozen banks and mortgage companies in redlining cases since Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the agency's Combat Redlining Initiative ...

Zillow report shows discrepancies in credit insecurity. Black families are paying more to rent their place of residence than they would owning a home due to credit insecurity, revealed a recent report ...

In the churning chaos of the last few weeks, it’s understandable that many didn’t read closely the executive order on school choice that President Trump signed last month. But those who care about ...

Redlining became illegal decades ago. Yet from building wealth to getting a mortgage, the discriminatory practice is still ...

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First National Bank of Pennsylvania said that it is "deeply disappointed" that the government started an investigation despite the fact that it only entered the Charlotte and Winston-Salem, North ...

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 ...

HBCUs across the Black rural south have long struggled with broadband access. With many HBCUs suffering from unstable internet connections, one school hopes to be the game-changer against digital ...

When Dr. Emanuel J. Carter talks about redlining, he doesn’t mince words. The Associate Professor in SUNY-ESF‘s Department of Landscape Architecture grew up in a redlined part of Philadelphia during ...

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 ...

In the churning chaos of the last few weeks, it’s understandable that many didn’t read closely the executive order on school choice that President Trump signed last month. But those who care about ...