Decades after leading protests that shut down Chicago worksites, Paul King hasn’t given up the battle against racial bias.

Construction has a long, often unenviable history with race, and an image as a closed fraternity of white men.

ENR’s coverage of race and equality in the construction industry passed through two major phases from the 1960s until the 1990s.

But construction has the creative problem-solving, dedicated resources and methodical follow-through to benefit women—and benefit from them.