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Denmark’s uprooting of settled residents from ‘ghettos’ forms part of aggressive plan to assimilate nonwhite inhabitants

A cyclist passes two people in the Norrebrogade neighborhood of Copenhagen in 2014. Francis Dean/Corbis via Getty Images by Selma Hedlund, Boston University History is full of...

Young families are leaving many large US cities − here’s why that matters

Parents and educators rally at Boston City Hall demanding urgent action to improve the city’s public schools. Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images by...

‘Racism’: Black Residents Accuse Alabama of Intentionally Flooding Town

Residents in Shiloh, a predominantly Black community in southeastern Alabama, are accusing the state of intentionally flooding their town through a highway expansion project,...

Allegheny County shelter options to expand starting next week

People are silhouetted against Second Avenue Commons on Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023, in Uptown. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource) The county’s Department of Human Services is...

This Atlanta neighborhood hired a case manager to address rising homelessness − and it’s improving health and safety for everyone

Mural by artist Chris Wright on Metropolitan Avenue in East Atlanta. Art Rudick/Atlanta Street Art Map, CC BY-ND by Ishita Chordia, University of Washington Homelessness has...

Are Black mayors under attack across the U.S., some say it’s a pattern

African American Mayors Association 2024 Conference photo by Stephanie Gadlin, The Chicago Crusader New York Mayor Eric Adams has vowed to fight the five-count federal indictment...

Advocates say climate plan must consider those most at risk in a warmer, wetter Allegheny County

Chief Pomaj-Chakmam-Yajalaji, chief of medicine, land stewardship and management of the Iroquois Confederacy of Aborigine American People, and a member of the Allegheny County...

A packed Baltimore trolley illustrates the ups and downs of US public transit

Workers on a trolley at 5 p.m. in Baltimore, April 1943. Marjory Collins/Library of Congress, CC BY-ND by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Hunter College Since the 1940s,...

Buses weren’t the only civil rights battleground in Montgomery – the city’s parks still reflect a history of segregation

Oak Park, Montgomery’s first park, was white-only until the mid-1960s. Binita Mahato, CC BY-ND by Binita Mahato, Auburn University Montgomery, Alabama, touts itself as the birthplace...

Cities around the world share many challenges. To address them, they need to develop science diplomacy

The mayor of Montréal, Valérie Plante, the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, and his counterpart from Milwaukee, Cavalier Johnson, at the annual conference of...

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