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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Dr. Emanuel J. Carter talks about redlining, he doesn’t mince words. The Associate Professor in SUNY-ESF‘s Department of Landscape Architecture grew up in a redlined part of Philadelphia during ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dallas has a new plan to get banks to invest in underserved areas and end the effects of racist lending practices that were outlawed many years ago. Residents say some parts of the city still show the ...

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.

For local and regional tumors, redlining associations were largest in 1995 to 1999 and attenuated over time. HealthDay News — Associations between historical redlining and breast cancer survival have ...

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 ...

Historically redlined neighborhoods are more likely to have a paucity of greenspace today compared to other neighborhoods. The study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public ...

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 ...