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The South Bronx is a cross section of everything wrong with America, but has a community hellbent on...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 3 months agoWalking down Alexander Avenue in the heart of the South Bronx, the poorest congressional district in...
Redlining in paint: In new exhibit, artist shows effects of discrimination on her Yonkers...
Lohud | The Journal News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLast summer, Shanequa Benitez borrowed her mom’s electric bike and pedaled up and down Yonkers’...
Hip-hop was born in the Bronx amid poverty, despair. 50 years later, there's pride, still hard times
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBefore it was a global movement, it was simply an expression of life and struggle: a culture that...
Silence About Sex Was Hurting My Latinx Community. Now I'm Teaching Sex Ed To Break That Cycle.
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe author at work. Photo Courtesy Of Angelique Molina-Mangaroo Growing up as a young Filipino and...
Scorched by history: Discriminatory past shapes heat waves in minority and low-income neighborhoods
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 months agoRuben Berrios knows the scorching truth: When it comes to extreme heat, where you live can be a...
The news at 9, with a beat and a rhyme: Rappers as citizen reporters | Matters of Fact
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCorrespondents. That's what journalists were called, back in the day. It was a day when travel was...
Understanding Environmental Racism and How It Can Make People Sick
Good Housekeeping via Yahoo News· 2 years agoUnderstanding Environmental Racism FG Trade Picture this: It’s a sunny day, the air is fresh and the...
How 50 Years of Hip Hop Influenced Youth Culture
Sourcing Journal via Yahoo News· 9 months agoHip hop’s humble beginnings hardly hinted that it would grow to see a half-century of cultural influence, but the phenomenon is on display daily....
Power outages linked to heat and storms are rising, and low-income communities are most at risk
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 months agoPractices such as redlining left marginalized groups in more disaster-prone areas with poorer...
The Progressive Way to Save Cities From Superstorms
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen the next Hurricane Sandy–style superstorm slams into New York, the ability of America’s largest city to recover will depend on what happens to a...