In this A Turning Point special, Brandon Simmons examines how redlining still impacts communities today.

A policy put in place generations ago still has lasting impacts on the social and economic well-being of Blacks to this day.

According to a University of California at Berkeley study, Cleveland is the sixth-most-segregated major city in the country, with most people of color living in east side neighborhoods facing extreme disadvantages. Visit any number of Cleveland neighborhoods, and you'll see the remnants.

"It was Mount Pleasant," former Cuyahoga County Treasurer and Land Bank Consultant Jim Rokakis remembered. "It was Superior-St. Clair, it was Glenville, it was the Kinsman neighborhood, Lee-Harvard."

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