Set in the far-off year of 2042, White Flight opens on the exact date and time that America’s white majority officially becomes a minority. (For the record, it’s Jan. 20 at exactly 8:18 a.m. So mark ...

Nearly 50 years ago, after a string of race-related riots in cities across America, President Lyndon B. Johnson commissioned a panel of civic leaders to investigate the underlying causes of racial ...

Since 1940, "white flight" has affected the city's demographics, not to mention its real estate market; every year, the population of white, non-Hispanic residents in the inner city decreased. That is ...

The story of Chicago’s post-World War II white flight is well known. In 1950, almost every neighborhood outside the South Side Black Belt was more than 90 percent white. Within twenty years, ...

We started receiving emails from readers about White Flight (aka Justin Roelofs), directing us to his MySpace and begging us to show some love. A colorful email from a fan-girl read: The band is White ...

The history of gentrification and white flight in Crown Heights has a surprising figure at its center: the Chabad-Lubavitch rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. As the leader of one of the most ...

Michelle Obama recently complained about "white flight" in her old Chicago neighborhood. By "white flight " she means that whites left her neighborhood as it became increasingly black. "Upstanding ...

“White flight” is most often referred to as a past-tense phenomenon: the decades in which fearful mid-century whites in cities moved to the ‘burbs, trying to outrun integration and seeking more of a ...

Using a wealth of both archival and interview data, Mulder sheds light on the forces that shaped these midwestern neighborhoods and shows that, surprisingly, evangelical religion fostered both ...

In the 30-odd years that Mike McMahon has shaped his life in southwest Houston, he has been transformed as often and profoundly as the community around him. As a University of Houston football player ...