In a case that could have momentous consequences for the state’s 674 school districts, a Superior Court judge has ruled that the state of New Jersey has systematically failed to address the problem of ...

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Most residential neighborhoods in U.S. metro areas remain highly segregated more than 50 years after the Fair Housing Act of 1968, a report by the University of California-Berkeley has found, although ...

Picture this: two babies born on the same day, maybe even within the same hour, at the Harlem Hospital Center in New York City. One baby, born to a Black mother, goes home to her family down the ...

Claudette Colvin: Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, who defied bus segregation in Montgomery nine months before Rosa Parks, has died at 86. Colvin's courageous act of defiance led to her arrest ...

An ecological theory may help to explain why segregation is so widespread and persistent in US cities, according to a new article. The new way of framing segregation's endurance may provide a useful ...

This story was originally published by Grist and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration. Picture this: two babies born on the same day, maybe even within the same hour, at the Harlem ...

In the late 1940s Black community members were relegated to substandard housing in certain parts of Louisville. Cheri Bryant Hamilton, longtime Chickasaw resident, former city council member and ...