Black activists in the U.S. are fighting the exploitation of Black resources and workers in the Congo.

Sometimes, even when it’s not raining, 78-year-old widower Willie Horstead Jr. thinks he hears the floodwaters seeping beneath his home, sucking the metal box deeper into Alabama’s rich soil.  When...

In the last decade, the two largest race discrimination cases brought by the federal government in the Golden State alleged widespread abuse of hundreds of Black employees at Inland Empire warehouses.

Phoenix is America’s fastest-growing city, driven in large part by an influx of new Black residents. But building a sustainable community there is a challenge.

Dorothy Holmes’ son, born in mid-December, loved receiving gifts during the holidays, so she has spent the years since his death handing out gifts and hugs to South Side children.

A $90 million training facility for law enforcement and firefighters has residents losing faith that city officials are taking them seriously.

A new data set outlines the threats in 70,000 U.S. census tracts. Black neighborhoods make up some of the most at risk.

FEMA is reimbursing cities that want to relieve homelessness, but only 23 local governments have signed up.

Hurricane Ida was the second strongest storm to hit Louisiana over the last three centuries, dwarfing the beast that was Katrina. As virtually every Gulf Coast city was put under evacuation orders,...

The desire for a better quality of life is pushing Black people toward the epicenter of climate disasters and racism.

Life in their new country requires Black Americans to wear less “armor,” but there is no escape to anti-Blackness.

LA Mayor Eric Garcetti claims hosting the 2028 Olympics will have “no impact” on the environment. Inglewood residents say otherwise.

Texas energy companies plan to build new fossil fuel power plants in communities of color to meet energy demand created by supercomputers.

In America’s cities, social and economic inequality is engrained in the trees.

A Capital B analysis found at least 23 jails that have either been proposed or constructed on toxic and contaminated lands in Midwestern states since 2020.

The first Great Black Migrations built the Midwest. In return, Black communities received pollution and toxic contamination.

The city’s residents did everything right, but 10 years later they still don’t have clean water.

For vulnerable communities, libraries are increasingly becoming a refuge in times of disaster.

In the last decade, the two largest race discrimination cases brought by the federal government in the Golden State alleged widespread abuse of hundreds of Black employees at Inland Empire warehouses.

The battle over a vehicle plant in Detroit reveals the complications of the country’s shift to cleaner energy transportation.

The oil industry attracted Black folks to Beaumont, Texas. A century later, they’re left battling a climate, housing, and health crisis.

The justices will soon decide if unhoused people can be issued jail time or fines for sleeping on the streets.

Each of the three Southern cities with the fastest-growing Black populations is set to be one of the worst-hit places for future severe weather events.

Half of the projects funded through the law have been allocated to expanding highways.

The federal 1033 program gives cities military equipment for climate adaptation. They're using it for everything but climate change.

Amid scorching temperatures and a slow federal response, Black communities are taking their well-being into their own hands.

In the same week, the city gutted its office for Black reparations and disclosed new elements of radioactive waste found in the lone Black neighborhood.

The killing of an unhoused Black man by out-of-state officers intensifies concerns over the convention's impact and protections for local residents.

Louisiana’s State Bond Commission is accused of pushing a “racist and classist” agenda by blocking financial support for important flood prevention infrastructure in New Orleans.

Advocates say Los Angeles is using police to “disappear” the city’s homelessness problem without addressing the racial inequalities driving the crisis.

Counties aren’t supposed to use Covid funds to build jails and prisons—but that hasn’t stopped some of them from trying to do it anyway.

Amid a long history of neglect, the agency’s decision has left residents with conflicting emotions: disillusionment and hope.

A new study shows indigenous resistance cut emissions by at least 25%.

Peaceful protests over the shooting of Jacob Blake deteriorate as protesters clash with law enforcement in one of the Blackest cities in a largely white state

All I knew about Wilmington, California, was poverty, so I long hid my connection to it.

The three biggest county jail systems in the U.S. demonstrate how incarcerated people are uniquely exposed to environmental hazards.

Overlapping crises in Alabama demonstrate the harm that oil and gas infrastructure is causing Black communities, residents and experts say.

Love’s Travel Stop hopes to build a travel center in the middle of a community outside Joliet, Illinois. Residents sued to protect their land and health.