Gene Demby

Guns have always loomed large in Black people's lives — going all the way back to the days of colonial slavery, explains reporter Alain Stephens from The Trace.

In 1968, the Fair Housing Act made it illegal to discriminate in housing. So why are neighborhoods still so segregated?

Philadelphia native Gene Demby was 4 years old when city police dropped a bomb on a house of black activists in his hometown.