A still shot from the docuseries “Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation.” In the 1950s, Black homeowners were often confronted by racism and violent resistance from white neighbors in Chicago. Housing ...

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In the summer of 1951, Harvey and Johnetta Clark were set to move into an apartment in Cicero. At the time, it was a working-class, all-white suburb just west of Chicago. The Clarks, a Black family, ...

A woman walks past newly renovated housing units in the Colonial Village public housing complex in Norwalk. Credit: Ryan Caron King / Connecticut Public CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — In 1950, Kalamazoo’s Northside was a working-class neighborhood of factory workers and tradesmen, many of them Dutch immigrants or first- or second-generation Dutch Americans. The ...

Filmmaker and native Chicagoan Bruce Orenstein guesses that 98%, maybe even 99%, of city residents don’t know the full history of segregation in Chicago. “Maybe they’ll know a little bit,” he said.

JOHN FINN: This map isn't about whether it's 19% or 21% here. The map is about, it's different here to here. I am a self-professed map nerd. I love working with maps. I love looking at maps. I love ...

In 2021, Boston began requiring real estate developers to consider how their projects could hurt residents historically discriminated against in housing and take steps to reduce those impacts. In ...