“We’re rolling the same thing, but we’re getting different results” — that’s a valuable experience, says creator Lawrence Brown.

It’s just one of the lasting economic legacies of the professional baseball played in the Negro Leagues in the 20th century.

“It was sailing against the tide of oppression,” Negro Leagues Baseball Museum co-founder Larry Lester says.

Full-service chain restaurants attract people from different income brackets and represent a way to break down class barriers, research shows.

Legalized segregation was an economic system that determined people’s livelihoods, says history professor Robin D.G. Kelley.

One journalist spent years reporting on segregation in Baltimore, Maryland. He found that segregated communities can shape our economic futures.

Real estate appraisers would negatively evaluate areas if people of color lived there.

Photographer Amy Davis talks about her photo book on the fate of historic movie theaters.

A look at the cities’ rise in violence as a symptom of economic inequality.

Natalie Moore on her new book “The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation”