Inequality in America

Howard University is opening a new science and analytics center to bring more diversity to the field and break down information that has social impact. Naoko Little-Jackson is getting her Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology at Howard, but her professional goals would see her spending less time in a lab coat and more time in front of a......

A 2018 study found white households in D.C. have a net worth that is 80 times higher than Black households, making home ownership for Black families more difficult. News4’s Jummy Olabanji reports more than 50 Black churches in the Washington Interfaith Network have joined together to increase generational wealth through home ownership.

A new mural depicting Prince George’s County’s history and a future full of growth, diversity and unity adorns the front of the William Hall Academy on Marlboro Pike.

Outgoing Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has reversed more than 50 legal opinions issued by predecessors during the Jim Crow and Massive Resistance eras that justified segregation, interracial marriage bans and other racist laws

News4 will examine the history of systemic housing discrimination in an upcoming special in our “Inequality in America” series.

News4’s Shawn Yancy talks to Andre M. Perry, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, about the practice of redlining in the U.S., how it impacted Black Americans from developing wealth, and what’s being done on a policy level to correct it.

The National Fair Housing Alliance is working with the White House leadership and the Department of Housing and Urban Development to ensure that racial equity and fair housing remain part of President Biden’s Build Back Better Plan. President and CEO Lisa Rice talks to News 4’s Eun Yang about the groups effort, and what’s next as they try to......

The executive director of the Coaches vs. Racism campaign that brought men’s college basketball teams from Michigan and Prairie View A&M to the nation’s capital says he found inspiration for his new project from Coaches vs. Cancer. “We wanted to make it a full experience, rather than just a basketball game between an HBCU school and a Power 5.....

A historic referendum on Greenbelt’s ballot Tuesday asked residents whether to develop a commission to study possible reparations for its Black and Native American residents.

Tens of thousands of people are expected in D.C. Saturday for a variety of rallies and protests focusing on statehood for the District, voting rights and other social justice issues.

In D.C., people rallied for that change in Lafayette Square and Black Lives Matter Plaza. They used the fence that the Trump administration put up as a message billboard.

A celebration of Al Brooks’ life will be held Saturday at 3 p.m. at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Woodbridge.