Today, underperforming public schools are too often located in the areas “redlined” by government agencies in the 20th century. Yet local government policies largely maintain attendance zone ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Cedar Rapids real estate agent Tonyamarie Adams was turned down by eight banks when she tried to purchase a home in northeast Cedar Rapids. Adams, a Black woman, said she was redlined, ...

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 ...

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 ...

COVID-19 has exposed the inadequacies in Chicago's traditional public education system by revealing how ill-equipped the schools were to deal with a crisis. Now we are witnessing its failure to make ...

It's one of the first times a theory of reverse redlining, an illegal and discriminatory practice of targeting a particular neighborhood or group for credit on unfair terms, has been put to the test ...

Disparities in current broadband access are linked to Depression-era federal housing policies known as redlining that prevented people in majority-Black neighborhoods from getting mortgages because ...

To understand racism in America, one must first disabuse themselves of the idea that race is a social construct—an idea that has been created and accepted by the people in a society. Money is a social ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. As has happened in many cities, the white south Charlotte wedge and the darker ...

The legacy of discriminatory housing policies continues to shape both economic and health outcomes. A study by Tulane University, New Orleans, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, reveals that ...