More women are on track to be elected mayor in the top 100 cities than ever before - in some major cities, for the first time.

Myrick’s new proposal would replace the city’s existing dept with a “Department of Community Solutions and Public Safety”

Learning from the upheaval of the nineteen-thirties.

The property values of the popular game reflect a legacy of racism and inequality.

Local food leaders are seeking solutions to fixing food in their communities.

What is the history of Black Georgia but a testament to the precariousness of Black people’s ability to participate in public life?

Mainstream culture denied Black children their humanity—so W. E. B. Du Bois created The Brownies’ Book to assert it.

Black civil-rights activists delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.

American cities still use buildings, roads, ports and rail lines built by enslaved people.

Lessons from the Jim Crow-era travel guide for African-Americans.

The U.S. can move forward from a lethal hobbling of its democracy. But for Black Americans, the next betrayal is usually lurking in the house next door.

Thousands of mutual aid projects emerged in 2020. They have long been a tool for marginalized groups.

Very little actual work or production is being relocated. What’s really changing are the addresses of those who own and control the capital.

Whites, angered at blacks and immigrants receiving “government handouts,” forget they were lifted out of poverty through racially exclusive welfare programs in the 30s.

The WKKK was independent of the Klan and just as committed to bigotry. One researcher says the 19th Amendment made it possible.

Next City looks at self-directed education, which respects each student’s passions, encourages self-sufficiency and turns the city into a classroom.

In the city where George Floyd was killed, a year of cries to defund the police ends with more incremental change that activists call a “big step.”

If spaces and landscapes are to reflect America as it is, then America as it is must be able to see itself in America's spaces and landscapes.

How the spread of COVID-19 misinformation has collided with the mistrust many Black Americans feel toward the healthcare establishment.