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Reparation opponents who oppose truth and reconciliation by insisting that America’s “original sin” of slavery is in the distant past should heed the lessons of Canada and South Africa.
Municipal swimming pools flourished in the 20th century. But too often, their success was based on the exclusion of African Americans.
Black families in Chicago lost an estimated $4 billion due to predatory contract buying, a Duke University’s Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity study found. Artist in residence Bruce Orenstein spoke to surviving victims.
All of the proposals are important, but addressing the affordable housing shortfall will require that the Chicago Housing Authority return to its original mission of directly providing housing.
American cities are getting more diverse, but neighbors of different races don’t necessarily socialize with each other. A sociologist in North Carolina discovered one surprising reason why.
The outgoing mayor’s agenda to advance Lincoln Yards, the 78, and a new police academy shows no break with his record of ignoring community and ethical concerns to subsidize gentrification.
Most transit-oriented development so far has been clustered on the North and Near West sides, the Metropolitan Planning Council found, reinforcing decades of underinvestment in segregated neighborhoods.
A docu-series from WVON looks at the history and data behind Chicago’s decades-long black population decline, and what the city’s racial makeup may look like moving forward.
Unlike the organized effort that got Harold Washington, the city’s first black mayor, elected in 1983, today’s black leaders may have dropped the ball this election season.
Most new grocery stores were built in areas with plentiful access in recent years, and those added to high-need areas were not enough to mitigate the effects of longstanding disinvestment and segregation, according to a new study.