The house where playwright August Wilson was born, in 1945, is a landmark in the Hill District, perhaps Pittsburgh's own most renowned Black "city within a city." One takeaway from historian Joe ...

The right-wing push to hike the social security retirement age is a warning siren to New York’s communities of color. More low income workers—who in New York City are disproportionately of color—would ...

In New York City, accumulating wealth is many times more difficult for Latino and Black New Yorkers, according to a recent report by the Robin Hood Foundation. The report found that nearly half of ...

Let’s be honest — there are still cities in America where Black folks don’t feel comfortable to travel. We’ve seen too much, heard too much, and lived too many stories of threats, harassment, and ...

Recent economic research from the National Women’s Law Center and the Economic Policy Institute has unveiled disparities in financial opportunities for Black women across America’s metropolitan areas.

A new report from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition shows Atlanta has the second-highest number of neighborhoods that flipped from majority-Black to majority-white between 1980 and 2020.

Strategists feel it's no surprise that Trump is stooping to new lows in his attacks on Black women and the cities they lead since they are breaking barriers that he can't touch. Since President Donald ...

The number of Americans who now say crime is a “major problem” in major U.S. cities is breaking down across interesting racial lines, according to a new poll released Tuesday. A larger percentage of ...

Black civil rights leaders and the mayors of several cities on Tuesday denounced the deployment of the National Guard to the nation’s capital to combat crime, calling it “fundamentally grandstanding” ...

In dozens of cities, the recent rise of fentanyl has put older Black men in particular jeopardy. By Josh Katz Margot Sanger-Katz and Nick Thieme Young Black men in cities across America died of drug ...