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.

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

According to newspaper reports from August 1947, 45 families - 119 people, including 70 children - were evicted.

In the late 1940s, when housing discrimination was common, what is now Cascade Valley Metro Park included a neighborhood ...

Mountain View residents say they are sympathetic to their unhoused neighbors in Davis Park but also feel the city’s approach ...

When James Curenton serves Mayflower Congregational Church, he is always mindful of the Black Church tradition and Mayflower's unique Detroit history.

For many, homeownership feels like a distant dream, but one organization is reshaping lives and communities to restore neighborhoods and build brighter futures.

Leslie Knox has made history as one of the newest residents of Hamtramck, Michigan. The small city nearly encircled by ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

Chalkbeat takes a close look at the faltering post-pandemic push to reengage teens and young adults not in school, college, ...

At 17, though, I discovered that there was one place worse than my neighborhood: where I first met my mom. There was another ...

The nonprofit Institute for Justice will appeal the loss of a lawsuit it filed for Black property owners over Ocean Springs’ ...