Redlining is the discriminatory practice of denying services—typically financial—to residents of certain areas based on their race or ethnicity.

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 ...

The effects of racist government policies are still harming communities of color decades later, recently published research suggests. Neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia, that were redlined – marked ...

The legacy of redlining—the 20th-century mapping practice that denied loans and other services to minorities based on their neighborhoods—continues to resonate in cities. New research from Virginia ...

SPRINGFIELD — Redlining and gentrification were the latest topics discussed Thursday in a series of committee hearings spurred by the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus as its members lay the ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The impacts of “redlining,” or the discriminatory mapping practice that largely denied loans and other important services from minority communities, are still alive and well in ...

In the penultimate of six brick row homes in Baltimore, Blair Scurry thought, “This can’t be happening to me.” She’d just learned she had bone cancer, Stage 3 osteosarcoma. The newly discovered tumor ...

The federal government is dialing back its pursuit of redlining cases, a move that could reshape how mortgage lending discrimination is policed in minority neighborhoods. An internal Department of ...