Close-up of Milwaukee's residential security map from 1938. “Segregation is not an accident,” according to Reggie Jackson, the head griot for America's Black Holocaust Museum. “There’s ...

Redlining was officially abolished in the 1970s, yet recent analysis of Milwaukee neighborhoods shows racial percentages bear a striking resemblance to the codified 1930s map. Campaigning for change: ...

- What redlining said was who could get a mortgage refinanced. - Nathan: Redlining maps, like this one drawn for Milwaukee in 1938, divided cities into four grades.

Researchers from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, the University of Richmond and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee analyzed historic redlining maps from 142 urban areas across ...

In 2018, Milwaukee's homicide rate was about 17 killings per 100,000 people. The rate for the city’s black population was about 35 killings per 100,000.

"Redlining" just sounds like an an old-timey term, a practice that exists only in history and our re-tellings of it.The word has particular roots in the 1930s, when the government-sponsored Home ...

On a 1938 map of Milwaukee created for a federal agency, ... The so-called redlining maps were used in cities throughout the U.S., part of blatantly racist New Deal policies: ...

Legal Aid Society Executive Director Colleen Cotter said she wasn’t surprised that Cleveland’s redlining map lined up with the map of where tenants were taking advantage of RTC-C.

Two University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professors are leading a crowdsourcing effort to document and map these covenants that shaped the racial geography of not only the city but Milwaukee County.

Comparing New York City's health department's recent heat vulnerability maps and the 1930s redlining maps show a strong link between how areas were classified back then and where people were most ...

The report, “Maps of Inequality: From Redlining to Urban Decay and the Black Exodus,” argues that those redlined maps “set in motion urban decay and fueled an ongoing exodus of Black people ...

Time and time again Clevelanders are presented with data maps that illustrate stark inequities suffered by disadvantaged communities, and each time, the maps seem to echo the city's legacy of ...