Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The stately brick buildings once called Willert Park Courts stand fenced off and choked in ivy, moldering behind graffiti and ...
Sheryll Cashin’s “White Space, Black Hood” shows how economic discrimination combines with racial injustice in America’s housing policy. Dismantling segregation in the United States has proven ...
For much of the last century, the “American dream” has centered on homeownership by married, white families. Alongside explicitly racist policies like racial segregation enforced by redlining, banks ...
Artist Enox Shabbaz begins a street mural in the Beman Triangle area of Middletown. The project has since been modified to comprise new crosswalks. Credit: Sacha Armstrong Crockett In 1847 Middletown ...
It’s been more than 50 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act into law, yet many Americans still live in racially segregated neighborhoods. How come? In “Freedom to ...
Milwaukee may be backing its way into greater integration not primarily through rhetoric, but through changing market ...
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- For many Americans, homeownership means independence, but the path to that goal isn't paved the same for everyone. Decades after the passage of the U.S. Fair Housing Act, ...
To the editor: Thanks to Gene Slater for his op-ed article on the history of housing segregation in Los Angeles. It brought back memories of my shock and revulsion when my husband and I bought our ...
In response to a recent Herald opinions column by Cara Dorris ’15 (“Why we won’t talk about class,” Feb. 12), let’s talk about class. Dorris acutely points out those uncomfortable first-year moments ...