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In the early 20th century, Detroit’s Black medical professionals created a network of health care institutions in response to racial discrimination and exclusion.
Anti-immigrant housing policies have been cast as a way for citizens to access more housing, but they fail to prevent the shortages driving the crises.
Composer Quincy Jones, who died in November 2024, was a titan of 20th-century American music. So why don’t music majors study his work?
What happens if the highest court in the land loses legitimacy?
By putting financial pressure on white businesses – often in a highly organized way – Black civil rights leaders achieved social change.
Though the Civil Rights Act of 1964 officially ended racial discrimination in public places, relics of the Jim Crow South still haunt modern memory.
Inner-city resistance to higher-density housing has diverted most of Sydney’s population growth, driven largely by non-white migrants, to the outer suburbs. The result is a racially divided city.
The naming of streets, places and landmarks in colonial Nairobi was used to show the political, ideological and ethnic dominance of the British.
Chronic stress from living with systemic racism and gun violence can lead to increased symptoms of PTSD and depression as well as elevated cortisol levels.
Food insecurity remains a major health problem. And poorer households are disproportionately affected.
A scholar who examines the impact of property ownership explains why purchasing a home comes with many moral obligations.
The effort to give every student equal access to an education has lasted decades and may need even more time before the goal is reached.
Despite widespread black poverty caused by unemployment, progress has been made towards the goal of a racially equal society.
Americans’ collective memory of school desegregation involves crowds of screaming white protesters. But less well known are the whites who stood by quietly, and those who approved of the changes.
The patterns of colonial spatial violence that played out in Ghanaian cities echo around the world.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi deserves better than being dismissed as an apartheid stooge. But he deserves little praise as an advocate for human rights and civil liberties.
Despite its progressive image, Minneapolis is one of the most segregated cities in the United States. That is by design not accident, argues an urban planning scholar.
There are, scientifically, no human races. How did race come to have this power and this durability?
Built by Tamil immigrants almost 100 years ago, the temple has survived apartheid and urban decay to remain at the heart of its community.
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