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...
‘Meditation,’ by Lei Yixin, near the picnic pavilion in Lake Phalen Regional Park. City of Saint Paul, CC BY-ND
by Dan Trudeau, Macalester College
What makes...
Activist and community organizer Sam Schmidt and Howard Ramsey, currently living on the streets, both of the Our Streets Collective, leave Second Avenue Commons...
Like poverty, homelessness in the U.S. is not race-neutral. Black Americans represent 13% of the population but comprise 21% of people living in poverty and...
A pedestrian walking along the BeltLine in Atlanta on Feb. 17, 2016, passes townhomes under construction.
AP Photo/David Goldman
by Dan Immergluck, Georgia State University
Is Atlanta...
by Viniece Jennings, Agnes Scott College
When many people think of New Year’s resolutions, they brainstorm ways to improve themselves for the year ahead. What...
by Joan Fitzgerald, Northeastern University and Julian Agyeman, Tufts University
The US$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill enacted in November 2021 will bring money to cities for...
