Last summer, Shanequa Benitez borrowed her mom’s electric bike and pedaled up and down Yonkers’ notorious hills. Using her grandfather’s Vivitar 35-millimeter camera, the 34-year-old Yonkers native ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zooey Liao/CNET When Wendyliz Martinez traveled from Pennsylvania to the Bronx to stay with her mom during the pandemic, she was ...

U.S. military veterans who lived in what were once known as "redlined" areas had a higher risk for heart attacks and other cardiovascular issues, according to a new study by researchers at Case ...

Science is about discovery. It's about answering questions and, often, raising new ones. For Elise and Demir Dilci—16-year-old twins whose research was presented Sunday at the American Heart ...

Historical redlining, a 1930s–1960s residential segregation policy, has been linked to shorter survival time in people with breast cancer. New research reveals that this association has changed over ...

When Dr. Chloé Schmidt was a PhD student in Winnepeg, Canada, she was studying wildlife in urban areas. She and her advisor Dr. Colin Garroway came across a 2020 paper that posed a hypothesis: If the ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Members of the Caddo Parish Civil Rights Heritage Trail project team at LSU Shreveport, KTAL NBC 6 NEWS, and Red River Radio (NPR) are excited to announce the beginning ...

All of us will experience some effects of climate change, but the burdens won’t be felt equally. Marginalized communities are more likely to experience the worst effects of climate change, especially ...

Systemic racism is a term we have all — hopefully — become conversant with during these past weeks; it is one of the most indestructible weapons used to obstruct people of color and our nation from ...

Shanequa Benitez's art exhibit is on display through early April. Benitez uses mixed media to show the effects of redlining on her community. Benitez is Yonkers Arts and the Municipal Housing ...