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Campaigns for Reparations Are Gaining Steam Across the Country As H.R. 40 gathers dust in the U.S. Congress, St. Paul, Minnesota, becomes the latest city to join the national grassroots movement to make reparations to Black communities. Minnesota Historical Society From atop the stump of what was once one of many trees lining Rondo’s streets, a boy watches the bulldozers work the soil. Marvin Roger Anderson, now eighty-one years old, grew up in a development his father and three other rail...

On Monday, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava participated in Goulds’ Walking One Stop collaborative effort with South Dade officers to tackle the rise in gun violence tragedies in Miami-Dade County.

ZIP Advertisement History & Hope: Community advocate says progress has been made but we still have a long way to go Share Updated: 10:30 AM CST Mar 4, 2021 Brittany Johnson Investigative Reporter History & Hope: Community advocate says progress has been made but we still have a long way to go Share Updated: 10:30 AM CST Mar 4, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript ACCOUNTS. USER STARTED TO REPORT THE OUTAGE ABOUT NOON TODAY IN THE SYSTEM IS STIL...

90 years after many Black Triangle neighborhoods were redlined by the federal government, the process is now happening in reverse in many of the same communities -- long-distressed or historically black communities are now being transformed by gentrification. Its happening in Raleigh and in Durham too. "We used to have family reunions right here in this yard," said Jackie Manns Hill, from the backyard of a small cottage in Durhams Walltown neighborhood. Its the home built by Hills ancestor Geo...

ZIP Advertisement We have made a lot of progress but we still have a long way to go: Urban League Sacramento President Cassandra Jennings reflects on life during Civil Rights Movement Share Updated: 11:10 AM PST Mar 2, 2021 Share Updated: 11:10 AM PST Mar 2, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript ACCOUNTS. USER STARTED TO REPORT THE OUTAGE ABOUT NOON TODAY IN THE SYSTEM IS STILL DOWN. WE HAVE COME A LONG WAY BUT MORE WORK STILL NEEDS TO BE DONE, THOSE ARE WORDS FR...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- The lines of housing discrimination in the Triangle were often drawn in red. ABC11s month-long look at the past, present and future of Black history continues with an exploration of redlining and how the foundation of housing inequity was built here at home. In Durham, part of that story can be told through ABC11 Anchor Joel Browns very own family tree. To help tell the story of Durhams Walltown neighborhood, he drove there to see his cousins, Jackie Manns-Hill and Annie ...

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) says systemic racism in home lending will be one of the top priorities for the banking committee he now chairs.

CBS News Confronting the history of housing discrimination: "Its just a remarkable record of exclusion" "CBS This Morning" co-host Tony Dokoupils grandfather became a homeowner in 1953, moving his wife and three children out of a tiny apartment in Manhattan and into a new house in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. It was one of Americas growing suburbs. He wasnt alone. After World War II, millions of families made similar moves. Lyn­d­hurst Mayor Robert Gi­angeruso told Dokoupil that many people moving...

© Getty Images A state commission in Virginia is recommending dozens of policy changes to “dismantle” structural racism and address the lingering effects of segregation. In a new report released Wednesday, the Virginia state government’s commission to address racist laws said the legacy of discriminatory policies such as "redlining" continues to harm African American communities. The report is the second released since Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) in 2019 launched the Commission to...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- ABC 7, Chicagos Number One station for news, presented a virtual town hall examining the long lasting effects of the discriminatory real estate and banking practices of redlining. ABC 7s Leah Hope moderated this hour-long event available on abc7chicago.com Thursday, February 11 at 2:00 PM. Redlining meant that Black residents, despite having all the necessary collateral and ability to pay, could not secure a home for purchase because of their neighborhood "color designation....