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Placeholder while article actions load Over the past few months, a trio of decaying downtown buildings in Topeka, Kan., have become a window into charged local debates around historical memory and urban redevelopment. Situated between 112 and 118 SE Seventh Street, they are named for African American journalist Nick Chiles and once housed . . […]
AGOURA HILLS, Calif. — Construction has begun on what is billed as the world’s largest wildlife crossing for mountain lions and other animals caught in Southern California’s urban sprawl. Officials held a ceremony Friday to mark the start of construction of a $90 million bridge over a freeway and feeder road that is about 35 […]
Brianna Noble always wanted to do more—more for people in need, more for the cause. She was an activist from a young age, a high schooler in Oakland, California, when a white city transit officer shot and killed a 22-year-old unarmed Black man named Oscar Grant. At the time, Noble hit the streets to rally […]
ATLANTA (AP) — The National Urban League released its annual report on the State of Black America on Tuesday, and its findings are grim. This year’s Equality Index shows Black people still get only 73.9 percent of the American pie white people enjoy. While Black people have made economic and health gains, they’ve slipped farther […]
Date: Saturday, April 9, 2022Contact: Interior_Press@ios.doi.gov NEW ORLEANS — Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland was in New Orleans, Louisiana today to commemorate an historic expansion of Bayou Sauvage Urban National Wildlife Refuge and highlighted the Biden-Harris administration’s ongoing efforts to conserve, protect, and restore our nation’s lands and waters. At an event with elected […]
In 2019, the Stuart Weitzman School of Design welcomed its first cohort of students into the Moelis Scholars Program. The program, designed to support students from diverse backgrounds who are interested in careers in city planning, housing and community, and economic development, provides tuition benefits, research stipends, and mentoring in the two-year Master . . […]
WASHINGTON—Moscow is recruiting Syrians skilled in urban combat to fight in Ukraine as Russia’s invasion is poised to expand deeper into cities, according to U.S. officials. An American assessment indicates that Russia, which has been operating inside Syria since 2015, has in recent days been recruiting fighters from there, hoping their