On Our Radar

Data and technology are the new frontier in the struggle for civil rights, and out on the frontier, a lot can go wrong.

In 1966, a group of Boston-area parents and administrators created a busing program called METCO to help desegregate schools. They thought of it as a quick fix to a passing problem. But the problem hasn’t passed, and METCO isn’t enough to fix it.

A turnaround in interest rates turned borrowers back on their heels last week, deflating a quick boom in refinance demand.

Public has negative views of the country’s racial progress; more than half say Trump has made race relations worse.

Internet literacy programs for older generations have become popular because this demographic is more susceptible to believing inaccurate political information and falling victim to internet scams.

A study of demographic changes in Philadelphia neighborhoods finds that an influx of more-affluent newcomers can erode community ties—or strengthen them.

The cost of fixing the nation’s widening affordable housing shortage measures in the billions of dollars. But if the healthcare costs that come with this lack of housing security are factored in, replenishing and expanding our low-income housing stock becomes an even better investment.

One day prior to Brian Moynihan’s, the CEO of Bank of America, testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, Moynihan announced that Bank of America will be raising its minimum wage to $20 an hour over the next two years.

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell decided to change Senate voting rules, meaning that Trump’s awaiting appointees will only require 51 instead of 60 votes to be confirmed.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson could not precisely articulate what the department was doing about protecting LGBTQ people from housing discrimination after it had removed LGBTQ nondiscrimination guidelines from its website.

A report released by the Institute for Policy Studies highlights how a polarizing racial wealth divide has grown between White households and households of color over the past three decades.

Members of the white power movement set fire to a Tennessee social justice center. Fortunately, no one was hurt.

Congress members confronted Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over a proposed budget increase for a program funding charter schools that quickly closed, or never opened at all.

The “whites only” signs were gone, but joblessness, dilapidated housing and intractable poverty remained.