The head of faith-based and neighborhood partnerships at the Department of Homeland Security has said in the past that the black community is responsible for turning cities into “slums” and ...

So this created slum conditions. So when African-Americans managed to break out of those slums and buy a home in a neighboring area, whites could be persuaded that slum conditions were going to be ...

But to outsiders the majority-black neighborhood was “slum land,” ripe for redevelopment because of its proximity to downtown, according to Joseph F. DiMento, who was born and grew up in ...

An exhibition at the Black Police Precinct and Courthouse Museum sheds light on the cultural history of Overtown, a predominantly Black neighborhood in Miami, during the era of legal segregation.

Housing projects followed slum clearance for Black and white Knoxvillians | Opinion In an effort to boost rentals, the Federal Housing Authority produced a film, "Housing In Our Time," which was ...

The city of Ocean Springs has prevailed in a federal lawsuit filed by Black property owners downtown who claimed their rights were violated when the city included their neighborhood in an urban ...