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 ...

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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 ...

The event is free and open to the public. Community members of all backgrounds are encouraged to attend the program on ...

CHICAGO, Ill. -- Historical housing practices in the U.S. have put many communities of color at a disadvantage. It’s not necessarily due to individuals being racist. It’s due to housing policies ...

Both historic redlining and contemporary structural racism are linked with higher diabetes occurrence among African Americans ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The St. Louis Gateway Arch on Oct. 10, 2009 (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images). “The Negro should be granted equality…On the surface, ...

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 ...