Urban renewal projects sparked the open housing movement to end housing discrimination. A series of demolition and construction projects labeled "urban renewal" destroyed Black neighborhoods in ...

In a recent documentary on its “Wisconsin in Black & White” television program, PBS Wisconsin interviewed experts, community leaders and Milwaukee residents about the history of the national urban ...

The story of Black economic disenfranchisement in the United States is not solely one of slavery or Jim Crow segregation. Equally devastating — and more insidious — was the 20th-century policy of ...

The state’s final report on its three-year, Greater Hartford Mobility Study lays out plans for a dramatic change in the area’s transportation system but it first acknowledges the sobering — and ...

In 1969, Yale planned to demolish the Hill neighborhood to build a parking lot. Residents stepped in and protested the proposal. This Footnotes episode examines two urban renewal plans and asks: How ...

German Village remained a working-class neighborhood throughout much of the mid-20th century. Throughout the years of World War II, the city suffered from deferred maintenance because of the war ...

Discussions of the ill effects of public housing, urban renewal, and urban freeways usually focus on big cities: the Chicago-lakefront hellhole called the Robert Taylor Homes, now-demolished; Robert ...

Wisconsin in Black & White is a local public television program presented by PBS Wisconsin. Funding for Wisconsin in Black & White is provided by the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea ...