Federal agency alleges Kansas City failed to properly track minority- and women-owned businesses on $1.5-billion international airport terminal project.

Contractor, labor and other members will be named in 60 days, with recommended changes due in one year in four specific areas of state public contracting.

Matthew C. McPherson forfeited $5.5 million and was sentenced to more than two years in prison without parole.

Allapattah, a working class, majority Latino neighborhood in Miami, is bounded by convenience—a hospital, metro stations, an art museum, highways for easy access to downtown, the beach and other points of interest—which makes it a magnet for development, pushing prices up, and residents and businesses out.

In the historic Boston neighborhood of Nubian Square, a wellspring of revitalization is replacing blighted areas with innovative community developments that seek to clean up the environment and provide affordable housing. 

Cincinnati’s West End is a mostly Black neighborhood where, compared to the rest of the city, the median income is lower and the percentage of residents who rent is higher. So when FC Cincinnati, the city’s professional soccer team, chose the neighborhood for its $250-million TQL Stadium, it raised both hopes and worries about what would happen to the area.

Standing on a dead-end street in Spartanburg, S.C., Harold Mitchell can plainly see the history of injustice in his community.

Projects aim to deliver a 21st-century model of environmental and economic justice in building a new American industry in areas facing pollution and climate change risk

In COVID-19's early stages, construction firms counted on field crews to become virologists virtually overnight to keep jobsites open. If companies can change overnight to stamp out the virus, why can’t they do the same for racism and other forms of bias?