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Climate advocates celebrated the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last month as it announced a closely watched $20 billion in grants under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The money will go

Long before the city’s West End became synonymous with destruction and displacement because of urban renewal efforts in the 1950s, the neighborhood was an epicenter of Black life in Boston.

Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (US-Sponsored Corporation) Roanoke, Virginia Redlining Map. Original scans from Federal Government,Any updated files by Mapping Inequality based on those have also been released into the public domain, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Danielle Brown / Inequality.org “All of the wealthy moved away and left only the poor in a socially disastrous state.” When Dr. Emanuel J. Carter talks about redlining, he does...

Recent studies have illustrated the links between structural racism, pernicious landscape features such as urban heat islands, and its impacts to biodiversity – including the birds you might spot in your city.

At a meeting of urban wildlife researchers in Washington, D.C., in June, one diagram made it into so many PowerPoint

In the unequal distribution of birds and other species, ecologists are tracing the impact of bigoted urban policies adopted decades ago.

The number of bingo and trivia nights rise as community and farmers markets near the end of the season.

In announcing the $9 million settlement with the Florida lender, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the DOJ "currently has over two dozen active investigations into redlining, spanning neighborhoods across the country.”

Laura Ross was reelected chair for CPB’s board, and Ruby Calvert was reelected vice chair.

Decades of disinvestment and failing infrastructure short changes Black communities.