The Justice Department has secured $122 million from a dozen banks and mortgage companies in redlining cases since Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the agency's Combat Redlining Initiative ...

"For the first time we were recognized for our continued commitment to telling this important history," the museum director ...

First National Bank of Pennsylvania said that it is "deeply disappointed" that the government started an investigation despite the fact that it only entered the Charlotte and Winston-Salem, North ...

The risk of heart failure in the present day is higher among Black adults who live in U.S. ZIP codes historically impacted by redlining, according to research published today in Circulation. The ...

It’s been a little over a month since a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, where a gunman killed 10 and injured three in a racist attack on a grocery store. Since then, the Department of Justice has ...

The long-term, systemic consequences of structural racism can be challenging to see, quantify, and communicate. But an online tool developed by Jaime Madrigano, an associate professor in the ...

Loan risks may no longer be assessed on color-coded maps that redline minority communities, but the practice of refusing to lend to potential buyers in those neighborhoods is still commonplace. In the ...

The Justice Department accused Los Angeles-based City National Bank on Thursday of discrimination by refusing to underwrite mortgages in predominately Black and Latino communities, requiring the bank ...

HBCUs across the Black rural south have long struggled with broadband access. With many HBCUs suffering from unstable internet connections, one school hopes to be the game-changer against digital ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It's a practice that dates back nearly a century and was outlawed more than 50 years ago, but the fight continues against the discriminatory lending process known as redlining.

Housing discrimination is deeply embedded in America’s past — and mortgage lenders are partly responsible through the practice of redlining. In a nutshell, redlining is mortgage discrimination against ...

The Justice Department announced Friday a cross-government effort to investigate and prosecute redlining, the practice of banks discriminating against racial minorities or certain neighborhoods. It is ...