Author: UB Center for Urban Studies
On July 21, the world experienced the hottest global temperature on record, only to surpass that record the next day. However, not everyone experiences the impacts of this heat and other climate-exacerbated disasters equally....
Border barriers respond to only one question: How do we stop them? Our starting point should be: Why are so many people on the run? Sarah Towle August 8, 2024 Read the full article...
Three years ago, Dr. Timothy F. Murphy and community leaders had their first meeting to plan out how University at Buffalo could win a federal grant to recruit and train the next generation of...
Vice-President Kamala Harris has selected the Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, as her running mate and this big decision reflects more conventional history than inside-the-DC-beltway convention wisdom. While pundits focused mainly on which possible choice...
New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) recently hosted an “environmental justice listening session” in Niagara Falls, inviting the public to express its concerns. DEC’s representative described the agency as a nationwide leader...
After working for months to challenge thousands of voter registrations, election denial groups are now pushing ahead with plans to challenge voters and votes ahead of the election. David Gilbert July 31, 2024 Read...
Former President Donald Trump made inflammatory remarks about Vice President Harris at the National Association of Black Journalists convention Wednesday, questioning her biracial background. Stephen Fowler July 31, 2024 Read the full article here...
On a spring afternoon, Pamela Saucer-Richardson stood in a grassy vacant lot on Erie Street, a block from Franklin Park in Dorchester, and remembered when her father owned the property more than 30 years...
Democrats acted as a proper political party, while Republicans remain in thrall to a dangerous authoritarian. Joe Biden’s decision on Sunday to withdraw from the presidential race—as dramatic an event American politics has seen...
Kumho Tire herded workers into anti-union brainwashing sessions, fired union supporters, including a mother of seven who was eight months pregnant, and plastered the plant with anti-labor literature during the workers’ drive to join the United...