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 ...

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 ...

What is redlining in real estate? Redlining in real estate refers to lenders denying loans based on the neighborhood’s racial makeup. Banned by the Fair Housing Act in 1968, redlining and other forms ...

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.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — According to the National Civic League, Grand Rapids is an “All-America City.” The award bills itself as a title earned through teamwork and ingenuity, working together to ...

When Dr. Chloé Schmidt was a PhD student in Winnepeg, Canada, she was studying wildlife in urban areas. She and her advisor Dr. Colin Garroway came across a 2020 paper that posed a hypothesis: If the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...