One of the lines that the unseasoned among us like to repeat is that systemic racism doesn’t exist. While I would love to live in that world, the truth is the ongoing effects of systemic racism are ...

The Lown Institute has ranked city hospital markets and individual hospitals by racial inclusivity. A new report uses a racial inclusivity metric to examine how well 2,800 hospitals serve people of ...

Structural inequalities that date back at least a hundred years continue to hamper Detroit and contribute to Michigan's largest city being the most segregated in America, according to a new study ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Metro Detroit hospitals are the most racially segregated ...

The steady movement of African-Americans from Detroit to area suburbs helped knock the region off the top of the list of most-segregated regions in the country. Metro Detroit is now No. 4, behind ...

The Detroit metropolitan area is one of the most segregated areas in the United States. But that is slowly starting to change for some racial groups. The slow change is driven by the fact that the ...

Detroit leads the nation as the most racially segregated hospital market, followed by St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri, according to the Lown Institute, a healthcare think tank. Atlanta, ...

Michigan has been trying to move this along since 2103. The highway removal is estimated to begin as soon as 2025, two years earlier than expected, with construction finished by 2028. The overall $270 ...

That Detroit is one of the most segregated metropolitan areas in the country is hardly news. How that came to be is rarely explored. Or what can be done about it. Or the full extent of its ...

Add Gallery 1780223001More than 50 years after the Fair Housing Act of 1968 outlawed housing discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, and religion, segregation persists in some of ...

Like the Big Bang, Metro Detroit expands away from its starting point, with no end in sight. Since 1990, the region’s developed land has increased 42%, while its population has increased only 4%. The ...