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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CANTON − Richard Harper says it isn't a coincidence that certain neighborhoods struggle more than others. The roots of the ...

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 ...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — Siouxland has a lot of black history that has been tucked away or forgotten, including the mass redlining that took place nearly a century ago. Redlining is something that ...

Janee Turner had long coveted the grand, red brick house on Kelton Avenue in Columbus' Driving Park neighborhood. Growing up, the now 42-year-old had played nearby with her siblings, cousins and ...

Decades of federal housing discrimination did not only depress home values, lower job opportunities and spur poverty in communities deemed undesirable because of race. It’s why 45 million Americans ...

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.

A white professor of BIPOC history reflects on a disturbing development—a refusal to grant credit to scholars whose phenotype matches that of historical oppressors. Elizabeth Redden/Inside Higher Ed I ...