The new PBS documentary film from Sarah Burns and David McMahon chronicles the fall of an Atlanta housing project through the residents who once called it home.

Writer James Baldwin was 24 when he arrived in Paris in 1948, with only $40 in his pocket.

The first class of hand-picked remote workers moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in exchange for $10,000 and a built-in community. The city might just be luring them to stay.

A new Urban Institute study measures the spatial mismatch between where job seekers live and employment opportunities.

In cities like Jacksonville and St. Louis, maps of mortgage approvals and home values in black neighborhoods look the same as they did decades ago, before the passage of the landmark fair housing law.

Economic plans like Mike Bloomberg’s assume that boosting black homeownership and entrepreneurs will close racial wealth gaps. New research suggests it won’t.

Going back in time, there were a variety of ways in which families earned money to survive.

In the history of fairness and equality in the United States, there’s no denying that women of color have often come up short.

Yep. Republican. Party of Lincoln. Party of the Emancipation.

Cultural cachet, licensing deals, and density explain why Toys ‘R’ Us, Tower Records, Barneys, and other faded U.S. retailers remain big across the Pacific.

Launches as 2020 election kicks off

Dozens of Amazon employees violate company policy by publicly criticizing a new communication policy that clamps down on employee activism.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is known for her work to secure women's right to vote in Philadelphia (and beyond). But Mary E. Harper's story is hidden. Two historians set out to uncover it.

It’s been her mission to commune with other changemakers and address global issues.

“What we’re saying is: ‘How about we do the ordinary?’ Let’s make sure our students aren’t struggling with food and housing.”

Across America, working-class people — including many of our friends — are dying of despair. And we’re still blaming the wrong people.

What happens to homeowners when their neighbors’ homes are foreclosed, turning neighborhoods into ghost towns largely owned by the city.

Hunting Park: A Community of Green Changemakers

Many cities are using incarceration alternatives. Some smaller cities and rural areas are building—and filling—costly new jails.

Cities have asked the high court to re-examine Martin v. City of Boise and issue of criminalizing homelessness