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A new study suggests that Black drivers in Chicago are more likely to get pulled over by police than white drivers, regardless of where they live or are...

(KRON) — According to researchers at the University of California Berkeley, 95.8% of all residential land in California is reserved for single-family housing, potentially creating an obstacle to racial and economic equality in the state, the six-year investigation released on Wednesday said. That 95.8% figure includes both incorporated and unincorporated regions in the state. When […]

The U.S. Supreme Court may be on the verge of making it even harder to win legal challenges accusing state officials of racial gerrymandering - the illegal manipulation of an electoral district's boundaries to alter its racial composition - to dilute the clout of Black and other minority voters. The nine justices this week heard arguments in such a case involving the relocation of 30,000 Black residents from South Carolina's 1st congressional district to another one in an electoral map adopted by the state's Republican-led legislature. The Supreme Court has been asked by the l...

Robert D. Bullard reflects on the movement he created

Redlining is a type of mortgage discrimination in which lenders deny loans based on a neighborhood's racial composition. Housing discrimination is deeply embedded in America’s past — and mortgage lenders are partly responsible through the practice of redlining.In a nutshell, redlining is mortgage discrimination against nonwhite neighborhoods. Lenders engage in redlining when they deny loans based on an area’s racial composition.Here, an overview of redlining’s past — and present. Redlining's His