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Almost 25 million people in the U.S. live in food deserts. These are neighborhoods with limited access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food sources.…

Here at State of Opportunity, we've been talking a lot lately about how your neighborhood can shape the person you become.Researchers have narrowed down…

On an industrial block on Detroit's east side, there's a big, black building that sits along a stretch of warehouses. The front of the building is covered…

Early Tuesday, 37-year-old Alton Sterling was shot and killed by police outside the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.Just a day later, a…

From kindergarten through high school, I attended schools with pretty racially diverse student populations. I've seen that same diversity reflected in the…

Detroit built its public health departments back in the 1800s, when cholera was rampant. But in 2012 the city gutted that department and privatized it.…

School districts get a certain amount of money from the state based on the number at-risk students they have.The money goes towards resources that help…

The U.S. Department of Education recently released its annual Civil Rights Data Collection. And for the first time it includes information about the days…

State of Opportunity has reported on the importance of early childhood education time and time again. Research shows the first five years of a kid's life…

Yesterday was Father's Day, and whether you're a biological, foster, an adoptive father, stepdad, grandfather, or father figure, we hope you had a great…