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In just over a decade, Democratic Party leaders have gone from advocating modest increases in Pell grants to pushing for large-scale debt cancellation.

The US Census has always undercounted people of color. But in 2020, the census is about to take a huge — and possibly intentional — step backward.

Leah Chase fed presidents and Freedom Riders, broke New Orleans’ segregation laws by seating black and white patrons together, and helped mend the country’s divisions, one meal at a time.

Advocates of the Green New Deal say there is great urgency in dealing with climate change and highlight the scale and scope of what is required to combat it. They are right.

Exactly a century ago on Tuesday, the Senate passed the 19th Amendment, which forbade states from denying the right to vote on the basis of sex. While ratification would require another year, female suffrage had won its greatest and most permanent victory.

While banks cannot legally discriminate and draw circles around communities anymore, the legacy of redlining has forever lowered the (appraised) value of land and properties in these areas.

Statistics bear it out: According to a 2018 report from the Urban Institute, as of 2015, the homeownership rate for millennials (then age 25 to 34) was around 37% — that’s 8% lower than the percentage of Gen X’ers or boomers at the same point in their lives.

Howlin’ Ray’s is L.A.’s Chinatown hottest restaurant, but the fried chicken outlet’s success is a sign of a new neighborhood displacing the existing one.

The US Census has always undercounted people of color. But in 2020, the census is about to take a huge — and possibly intentional — step backward.

Just weeks before the Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether the Trump administration can add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, new evidence emerged Thursday suggesting the question was crafted specifically to give an electoral advantage to Republicans and whites.

Black home buyers in Chicago lost at least $3.2 billion in today’s dollars because of racist real estate policies and predatory contracts between 1950 and 1970, according to a report published Thursday.

San Francisco’s recent municipal ordinance banning the use of facial recognition technology by city and county agencies has received international attention.

Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2019: Rising rents for millennials give rise to a new breed of lender Jennifer Burnes says the paychecks from her work as a model and designer in Hollywood arrive sporadically, posing a challenge to paying monthly rent. “You know the check’s on the way, you just don’t know when, exactly,”

NPR, May 30, 2019: A dad wins fight to increase parental leave for men at JPMorgan Chase Two years ago, Derek Rotondo told his employer he wanted to take 16 weeks of paid leave granted to primary caregivers for his newborn son. He says he was told: “Men, as biological fathers, were presumptively not the

The Daily Beast, May 17, 2019: The forgotten tale of how black psychiatrists helped make ‘Sesame Street’ In 1969, the show aired on public television stations across the country for the first time. It was called “Sesame Street.” It was not only the most imaginative educational show for preschoolers ever designed: it was also, quite