Historic redlining, a U.S. policy outlawed nearly 6 decades ago for segregating neighborhoods based on their racial makeup, still negatively impacts survival from breast cancer, according to results ...
Last summer, Shanequa Benitez borrowed her mom’s electric bike and pedaled up and down Yonkers’ notorious hills. Using her grandfather’s Vivitar 35-millimeter camera, the 34-year-old Yonkers native ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – With fair housing being one of the biggest issues in Jacksonville, there are efforts underway to make sure everyone is treated the same when it comes to finding a place to live.
Shanequa Benitez's art exhibit is on display through early April. Benitez uses mixed media to show the effects of redlining on her community. Benitez is Yonkers Arts and the Municipal Housing ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The idea that people of low-income experience shorter life spans and higher rates of chronic disease does not necessarily come as much of a surprise. So it’s not shocking that living ...
U.S. military veterans who lived in what were once known as "redlined" areas had a higher risk for heart attacks and other cardiovascular issues, according to a new study by researchers at Case ...
In the 1930s, the U.S. government introduced the practice of redlining — categorizing neighborhoods based on the ethnic and racial backgrounds of the people who lived there, with areas primarily ...
When Dr. Emanuel J. Carter talks about redlining, he doesn’t mince words. The Associate Professor in SUNY-ESF‘s Department of Landscape Architecture grew up in a redlined part of Philadelphia during ...