How can trees be racist? That’s the question explored in a new documentary, “Racist Trees,” about a historically Black neighborhood called the Crossley tract in Palm Springs, Calif., ...

Into the breach came working-class families — Latino, Black, Indigenous, Filipino and white ... in Palm Springs real estate. Residents said the billowing “racist trees” were planted ...

The Black homeownership rate saw a modest annual uptick to 44.1% in 2022 from 44% in 2021, but remains significantly behind the White homeownership rate of 72%, the report found. A stubborn racial ...