The Brooklyn neighborhood was established in the late 1860's. At its height it was a thriving black business center and an African American city within a city known as Black Wall Street.

County officials in Springfield, Illinois, have agreed to pay $10 million to the family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman shot and killed in her home last summer by a sheriff’s deputy ...

Maplewood, a suburb of St. Paul, became an enclave for Black families despite decades of racist real estate practices in Minnesota.