The Justice Department has secured $122 million from a dozen banks and mortgage companies in redlining cases since Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the agency's Combat Redlining Initiative ...

Redlining is a term that evokes painful memories of discrimination, systemic inequality and economic hardship for countless communities, particularly those of color. Historically, redlining referred ...

The days of legally sanctioned race-based housing discrimination may be behind us, but the legacy of attitudes and practices that kept nonwhite citizens out of some neighborhoods and homeownership ...

Close to six decades after its outlaw in the federal government's Fair Housing Act of 1968, redlining still haunts Lansing. Redlining is denying someone credit necessary for buying housing based on ...

When Wendyliz Martinez traveled from Pennsylvania to the Bronx to stay with her mom during the pandemic, she was looking for a way to balance childcare with her online graduate studies at Penn State.

The agency must come up with rules by November 2023 to address discrimination by broadband companies that disproportionately leave behind communities of color. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET ...

Housing values in American cities still break sharply along racial lines, showing the lingering impact of federal "redlining" in the 1930s, which devalued homes in African-American neighborhoods. The ...

I am a white professor of what I’ll call BIPOC—Black, Indigenous and people of color—history. Over my career, I have invested energy and effort in the diversification of my field. I have chaired two ...

Using personal information gathered about you on the Internet to provide you with better choice is very different from using the same information to control your behavior. The former is a service to ...

Redlining, the practice of banks and real estate agents steering black and Latino families away from predominantly white neighborhoods, is often spoken of in the past tense. We tend to think of it as ...