U.S. Metro Areas

Chicago Illinois

Recognizing that words have the power to harm, we commit to using more just language to describe places

Jennifer S. Vey and Hanna Love

Monday, July 13, 2020

Wearing masks in the time of COVID-19, the Sukarmadijaya family sit dine al fresco at a table set up off the sidewalk in front of Awang Kitchen, an Indonesian restaurant along Queens Boulevard, in the Elmhurst section of Queens, NY, June 26, 2020. Under Phase II, restaurants may serve customers at sidewalk tables and 8ft into the street from sidewalk, all meant to prevent the further spread of COVID-19 pandemic. (Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

The Metro Recovery Index: Tracking metropolitan economies through the COVID-19 crisis

July 10, 2020

chamber

As COVID-19 resurges, so does the threat to local budgets

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Classroom

What should communities do when a school closes for good?

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Wilmington

How Wilmington, Del. is revitalizing vacant land to rebuild community trust

Laura Semmelroth

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Atealla Betancourt speaks with a doctor before getting tested for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during its outbreak, in Austin, Texas, U.S., June 28, 2020. REUTERS/Sergio Flores

A roaring Sun Belt surge has inverted the demographics and politics of COVID-19

William H. Frey

July 2, 2020

A protester speaks to the crowd underneath a Confederate monument during nationwide unrest following the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. May 31, 2020. Picture taken May 31, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Our calls to remove racist symbols are finally being heard

Jhacova Williams

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Incarceration

In too many American communities, mass incarceration has become a jobs program

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Hundreds of protesters flooded the streets of Crown Heights in Brooklyn on June 1, 2020 to demand the defunding of the police force and to demonstrate against police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's death by Officer Derek Chauvin who kept his knee on Floyd's neck for more than 8 1/2 minutes, including 2 1/2 minutes after Floyd became unresponsive. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

This Juneteenth, we should uplift America’s Black businesses

Andre M. Perry, Tynesia Boyea-Robinson, and David Harshbarger

Thursday, June 18, 2020

A street sign of Black Lives Matter Plaza is seen near St. John's Episcopal Church, as the protests against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd continue, in Washington, U.S., June 5, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

A public letter to the Associated Press: Listen to the nation and capitalize Black.

Tuesday, June 16, 2020