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"Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!" That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above...

In the six years since its initial publication, The Color of Law, "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave...

When Harvard and Yale trained property law scholar Bernadette Atuahene moved to Detroit, she planned to study the city's squatting phenomenon, in which thousands occupied vacant homes...

By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that...

  Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful...