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The Housing Revolution We Need

A decade after the crash of 2008, a growing movement has thrust our prolonged housing crisis to the center of the national agenda.
by Thomas J. Sugrue via Dissent on October 1, 2018

A Reparations Map for Farmers of Color May Help Right Historical Wrongs

In an effort to address centuries of systemic racism, a new online tool seeks to connect Black, brown, and Indigenous farmers with land and resources.
by Andrea King Collier via Civil Eats on June 4, 2018

The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy

The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.
by Matthew Stewart via The Atlantic on May 16, 2018

Home Values Remain Low in Vast Majority of Formerly Redlined Neighborhoods

The long legacy of structural racism in the New Deal-era housing market.
by Sarah Mikhitarian via Zillow Research on April 25, 2018

A New Kind Of City Tour Shows The History Of Racist Housing Policy

Redlining tours explain how policies designed to keep minorities out of certain areas shaped the urban landscapes we see today.
by Adele Peters via Fast Company on April 23, 2018

Housing Segregation In Everything

In 1968, the Fair Housing Act made it illegal to discriminate in housing. So why are neighborhoods still so segregated?
by Gene Demby, Maria Paz Gutierrez, Kara Frame via NPR on April 11, 2018

How the Fair Housing Act Failed Black Homeowners

In many cities, maps of mortgage approvals and home values in black neighborhoods look as they did before the law was passed.
by Kriston Capps, Kate Rabinowitz via CityLab on April 11, 2018

Why White Southern Conservatives Need to Defend Confederate Monuments

Confederate monuments were essential pieces of white supremacist propaganda.
by William Sturkey via Black Perspectives on March 3, 2018

50 Years After the Kerner Commission

African Americans are better off in many ways, but are still disadvantaged by racial inequality.
by Janelle Jones, John Schmitt, Valerie Wilson via Economic Policy Institute on February 26, 2018

For People of Color, Banks Are Shutting the Door to Homeownership

Reveal’s analysis of mortgage data found evidence of modern-day redlining in 61 metro areas across the country.
by Aaron Glantz, Emmanuel Martinez via Reveal on February 15, 2018

When Government Drew the Color Line

A review of "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America."
by Jason DeParle via New York Review of Books on February 11, 2018
Boy walking across a dirt road in Biloxi.

How Poverty and Racism Persist in Mississippi

Author Jesmyn Ward on the racism “built into the bones” of the state where she grew up and is choosing to raise her children.
by Jesmyn Ward via The Atlantic on February 1, 2018

On Eve of Trump Visit, Mississippi African Americans Say He’s Brought Back Past Troubles

The president’s decision to attend the opening of a new civil rights museum in Jackson has sparked protests.
by Marc Fisher via Washington Post on December 7, 2017
A row of wood frame houses in an African American neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. (Credit: Marion S. Trikosko, Library of Congress)

Discourse on Race and Inequality in the United States

We must understand America's history of inequality to confront the racial wealth gap.
by Kasturi DasGupta via Black Perspectives on November 30, 2017

The Disturbing History of the Suburbs

Redlining: the racist housing policy from the Jim Crow era that still affects us today.
via Adam Ruins Everything on October 4, 2017
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The Civil Rights Act was a Victory Against Racism. But Racists Also Won.

The bill unleashed a poisonous idea: that America had defeated racism.
by Ibram X. Kendi via Made By History on July 2, 2017

The Roots of Segregation

"The Color of Law" offers an indicting critique of the progressive agenda.
by Carl Paulus via The American Conservative on May 5, 2017

Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery

Blacks continue to die younger than people in other groups in the Black Belt.
by Anna Maria Barry-Jester via FiveThirtyEight on April 20, 2017

How Tax Policy Created the 1%

For nearly a century, American tax policy has privileged the investor class and advanced the accumulation of white wealth.
by Julia Ott via Dissent on April 18, 2017

Land and The Roots of African-American Poverty

Land redistribution could have served as the primary means of reparations for former slaves. Instead, it did exactly the opposite.
by Keri Leigh Merritt via Aeon on March 11, 2016
European immigrants in line at Ellis Island.

How Immigrants Fit Into America's Economy, Now and 100 Years Ago

Compared to 19th-century arrivals, today's new arrivals are much more likely to be at the extreme ends of the earnings spectrum.
by Gillian B. White via The Atlantic on January 24, 2016
LBJ signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The Massive Liberal Failure on Race, Part II

Affirmative action doesn't work. It never did. It's time for a new solution.
by Tanner Colby via Slate on February 10, 2014
A Los Angelas police officer walks away from a police cruiser with a damaged windshield.

"Corporate America’s Security Guards In-Blue": State Violence and Latinx Protest in Los Angeles

Los Angeles has a history of Latinx protest; one that is often marred by police violence.
by George Francis-Kelly via The Metropole on June 30, 2025
Elon Musk arrives for Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025.

The Worldview of the Afrikaner Diaspora Now Haunts the US

Elon Musk and other tech moguls with roots in apartheid-era South Africa have been shaped by the history of right-wing white nationalism.
by Joseph Dana via New Lines on February 19, 2025
The border of Petersham and Barre, Massachusetts.

‘A Vehicle of Genocide’: These Mass. Towns Were Founded on the Killing of Native Americans

Estimates say that millions of dollars and tens of thousands of acres of land throughout New England were given to soldiers who scalped Native Americans.
by Andrew Botolino via WGBH on February 3, 2025
Jade Stevens rests near Lake Putt on land in California’s Tahoe National Forest.

Can Land Repair the Nation’s Racist Past?

California’s approach to Black reparations shifts toward land access, ownership and stewardship.
by Alexis Hunley via High Country News on December 1, 2024
An artistic collage juxtiposing a transatlantic slave ship with a tenement in Harlem.

How the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Continues to Impact Modern Life

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism.
by Jennifer L. Morgan via Smithsonian on November 7, 2024
Photograph of young students getting off a school bus.

Public Schools Really Can Save America

America's public schools were founded on the ideal of uniting rich and poor, but inequality persists due to racial, income, and systemic divides.
by Adam Laats via Current (religion and democracy) on September 5, 2024
Michelle Obama at the Democratic National Convention.
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Michelle Obama Was Right to Clap Back at Trump on 'Black Jobs'

The idea of "Black jobs" owes to 18th and 19th century divisions of labor designed to uphold slavery and white supremacy.
by Whitney Nell Stewart via Made By History on August 28, 2024
Nora Kenworthy's book: "Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare".

Crowded Out: The Dark Side Of Crowdfunding Healthcare And Its Historical Precedents

The moral terrain of crowdfunding is fueled by two persistent social ideologies: the dual, and intertwined, myths of meritocracy and the “deserving poor.”
by Nora Kenworthy via HistPhil on July 12, 2024
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