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The demographic trend is that this whatmajority african-american city is going to be sort of like new york. this -- gorgeous mosaic of people from all over the place in this one spot. and so it could have impact on particularly mayor's races, city council races. >> is it more of an international influx is it more of a wide influx is it a mix? what's moving? >> i think it's an influx of whites into the city. remember, like a lot of urban areas after the '60s there was white flight. people left. but now cities are in again and people are moving back in. the city has changed a lot. the people wan...

The west, a city founded as the territorial capital of the louisiana territory. it hosted the summer olympics and the world's fair in 1904, seemed poised to grow into one of the largest and most consequential cities not just in the united states but perhaps in the world, but it didn't happen. today the city remains in the midst of a series of downtown and neighborhood revitalization projects, trying to plug a population drain that's been going on for decades. from 1900 to 1920 st. louis was the fourth largest city in the united states. but then it started to slide. it was the seventh in 1930, ...

Trans gender month, you have all kinds of months to rightfully celebrate people who have been historically excluded from the narrative of american identity, but the first nation people, the indigenous people, have become the forgotten people. why is it that only four presidents including president obama, have gone to indian nation? >> speaking with historians and people in the communities, you have to say no one cares. out of sight, out of mind. the feeling that people have been forgotten and neglected. it kind of reminds you of white flight and the exodus. you want cities and schools, you got...

Oak park is a community outside of chicago, illinois, with about 52,000 residents. you may not have heard of it, but they believe they have a model to tackle a problem that's plagued our country for decades, residential segregation. for more than 40 years oak park has been working to maintain integrated neighborhoods. in the early 1970s oak park had less than a dozen black families. but housing was intentionally constricted, leaving black residents to look outside the city for homes. that began a pattern of white flight for many communities. some wanted to intentionally work against that, both...

Life are more integrated than they were 50 years ago. but like khalil said, there's been this massive disinvestment in our public infrastructure. and that is a loss and that is something that is holding back racial equality. i mean, if you just look at schools, like, schools are in an ongoing period of resegregation, right? like large percentage of african-american students go to schools that are 90%, 95% black. large majorities of african-american latino students that are majority african-american and latino. white families have all but, if they haven't pulled their kids out of public schools...