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 ...

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 ...

A new study from Tulane University finds that historical race-based lending practices are still impacting health today, linking these discriminatory policies to delays in effective HIV treatment ...

Young cancer patients in redlined areas have higher mortality risk than those in nonredlined areas, indicating structural racism's impact on health outcomes. Redlining, a historical practice, has led ...

Property tax systems are how most of us pay for local government. Even if we don’t own our own homes or commercial spaces, landlords typically pass through the cost of property taxes to tenants. Local ...

(NewsNation) — The government-sanctioned discrimination known as redlining, which was outlawed more than 50 years ago, lives on today in the form of higher rates of diabetes in formerly redlined ...

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 ...

Color-coded maps in the 1930s designated predominantly Black and immigrant neighborhoods as too risky to receive New Deal-era government-backed home loans, a practice known as redlining. Without any ...

Broadband plays a critical role in most aspects of modern-day life, yet over 42 million Americans still lack access to high-speed Internet. This digital divide is driven by "digital ...