When Wendyliz Martinez traveled from Pennsylvania to the Bronx to stay with her mom during the pandemic, she was looking for a way to balance childcare with her online graduate studies at Penn State.

The Justice Department announced Friday a cross-government effort to investigate and prosecute redlining, the practice of banks discriminating against racial minorities or certain neighborhoods. It is ...

The agency must come up with rules by November 2023 to address discrimination by broadband companies that disproportionately leave behind communities of color. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET ...

Even with the pandemic waning, telehealth is here to stay. But is virtual care the golden ticket to a reimagined health system? Katherine Gergen Barnett, M.D., at Boston Medical Center looked into how ...

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act tasks the agency with combating digital discrimination as it helps to make broadband available to all. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in ...

Broadband plays a critical role in most aspects of modern-day life, yet over 42 million Americans still lack access to high-speed Internet. This digital divide is driven by “digital ...

Disparities in current broadband access are linked to Depression-era federal housing policies known as redlining that prevented people in majority-Black neighborhoods from getting mortgages because ...

Digital skills can be the difference between a job seeker finding new employment, or having fewer options. Often, there’s a mismatch of what employers think of as constituting such skills. For ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meta is being sued for allegedly directly contributing to education inequities in Black communities. “Relegating Black students to ...

“If I blindfolded you, spun you around a bunch of times, and had you throw darts at a dartboard, you’d have about as likely a chance of grouping your darts together as the U.S. having a comprehensive ...

In 2021, a Facebook user filed a lawsuit because they didn't think they were getting a fair shot at viewing advertisements. Wanting to see ads might seem absurd — if you're anything like me, you want ...