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DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- The lines of housing discrimination in the Triangle were often drawn in red. ABC11's 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 Brown's very own family tree. To help tell the story of Durham's Walltown neighborhood, he drove there to see his cousins, Jackie Manns-Hill and Annie Smith Vample. All of them are descendants of Walltown's namesake, George Wall. "This is your grea...

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: "It's just a remarkable record of exclusion" "CBS This Morning" co-host Tony Dokoupil's 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 America's growing suburbs. He wasn't alone. After World War II, millions of families made similar moves. Lyn­d­hurst Mayor Robert Gi­angeruso told Dokoupil that many people moving to Lyndhurst were a part of the working class, compromised of masons, carpenters and farmers. ...

© 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 Examine Racial Inequity in Virginia Law. In its 2019 report, the commission recommended the repeal ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- ABC 7, Chicago's 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 7's 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." The historic practice of redlining, with some roots in Chicago's real estate and financial comm...