A new, time-lapse video map shows how racially restrictive covenants rapidly spread across Wake Country from 1906 to 1950. First, it’s just a small cluster of red dots — each representing a ...

LAKE COUNTY, Ill. (WLS) -- When Nicole Sullivan moved into her neighborhood in unincorporated Mundelein about ten years ago she discovered a restrictive covenant in her property deed. It was written ...

Burlington City Attorney Dan Richardson expected that the bill he requested would pass the legislature without issue. H.551 was intended to ban language in some old property deeds that barred people ...

SHILOH COMMUNITY, Ala.—Their land is bound forever. The deeds of three homeowners—Pastor Timothy Williams, Aretha Wright and Page Jones—all living in the historically Black Shiloh community of south ...

Using a restrictive covenant in a 1938 deed, neighbors in the Tara-Leeway Heights neighborhood convinced a developer to build a single-family home instead of a duplex. The home, 1313 N. Harrison ...

A new map released on Wednesday shows the neighborhoods in Wake County that were established under covenants with racially ...

An aerial view of Bellevue Forest and a deed from a property in the neighborhood dated 1938 (image via Arlington Historical Society) A sociology professor at Marymount University and a former housing ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Some homeowners may find discriminatory and illegal language in their deeds, according to Monroe County Clerk Jamie Romeo. That language, called a restrictive covenant, is now the ...

Councilwoman Inga Selders stands in front of her childhood home where she currently lives with her family in Prairie Village, Kan. Selders stumbled upon a racially restrictive housing covenant in her ...