The wealth gap has been increasing since 1992. By 2022, Black households held only $15 of wealth for every $100 held by white ...

An affordable housing project in Houston’s Independence Heights neighborhood has been temporarily paused, raising significant ...

The Houston area is home to the number one fastest-growing wealthy suburb in the U.S., according to a new report.

Professor, author, and advocate Dr. Robert Bullard says he came into the field by accident through a boots-on-the-ground field project he assigned his grad students in the late 1970s. The task was to ...

From a Houston high-end hotel to a downtown spa and a farmer-owned grocery store, check out these new Black-owned businesses ...

In 1958, Williams chaired the Committee to Combat Racial Injustice, which organized to defend two Black boys, ages 7 and 9, ...

Explore Black history and culture at Houston landmarks such as Freedmen’s Town, the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum and ...

Houston officials met with residents in the Westridge and Braes Terrace neighborhoods on Jan. 28 during the Westridge Civic Association meeting to update and address concerns over a street and ...

I get, every week, cards from developers, realtors, wanting to buy my property.” Sharswood, a predominantly Black neighborhood, in 2015 became a focal point for eminent domain and extensive ...

A mob of 10,000 whites descended on Greenwood, the richest black neighborhood in America, after a black teenager on his way to a blacks-only bathroom stepped on the foot of a white elevator operator.

More than a century ago, Greenwood, a Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was destroyed in a violent spree by a white mob. It was one of the worst episodes of ...

As a result, many drugstores have closed their less profitable locations. These closures primarily impact Black and Latino neighborhoods, creating prescription deserts. Those with limited financial ...