urban history

The Problem with Baltimore

In 2015, Harvard economists Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren did a study on how the socioeconomic conditions of the neighborhoods

In 1910, Baltimore became the first city in America to legalize residential segregation when Mayor J. Barry Mahool signed a

The intersections of race and place lie at the heart of my ongoing DOCUMERICA series for Black Perspectives. Through the

There’s a good reason why I’ve focused on the work of Chicago-based Black photojournalist John H. White during the first

This is an interview with Robert Greene II, the lead associate editor of Black Perspectives, and Davarian Baldwin. Baldwin is the Paul