Why is Buffalo among the mostsegregatedcities in the nation? — Margaret Sullivan,Washington Post, 20 May 2022 Lacy and Smith shared meals and boarding houses with Robinson in thesegregatedSouth during spring training and felt the taunts hurled from the stands. ...
While it's no surprise to many that Chicago lands in the top 10 of America's most racially-segregated cities, finding out that our city lands at number one is disconcerting. According to a new study by the University of Virginia, Chicago steals first place by a hefty margin. Atlanta comes...
In this article, we’ll look at cities proper rather than metropolitan areas. Venturing beyond the city limits and into the surrounding area cansometimes lead you to different conclusionsabout a city’s demographic makeup, so we’ll look at those in a follow-up post. But cities themselves ma...
Our evidence shows banks charge more to open and maintain checking accounts in neighborhoods and cities with larger Black and Latinx populations even after controlling for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics as well as market competition. The higher costs of banking imposed on Black and Latinx...
When Biden ran for the Senate in 1972, he supported busing. But once elected, by a margin of just 1.4 percent, busing became a major political controversy as northern cities were forced to grapple with attempts to end segregation. In 1974 and 1975 there were riots in Boston and Louisville,...
"But that's not true in many parts of the country, where cities have been emptying out over time as their economies have bottomed-out. America is dotted with these left-behind neighborhoods – places where industry has left, property values have declined, and po...
We can no longer trivialize, or ignore, the impact of structural impediments, racial discrimination, and racial segregation in our analysis of African-American youth gangs in America's inner cities. These issues set a stage where 79 African-American youngsters view their gang affiliation as a ...