The two so-called "separate but equal" societies were never equal, and the "separate" part of the equation is misleading, too ...

Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat before Rosa. Parks but respectability politics, colorism relegated her to the ...

School segregation has increased in the last 30 years, especially in the 100 largest districts that enroll about 40 percent of the nation’s K-12 population. While the overall public school population ...

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 ...

A group of Middletown parents are asking New Jersey's top education official to overturn a decision to close schools in their ...

Sheryll Cashin’s “White Space, Black Hood” shows how economic discrimination combines with racial injustice in America’s housing policy. Dismantling segregation in the United States has proven ...

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 ...

Whether it’s black-and-white photos of Arkansas’ Little Rock Nine or Norman Rockwell’s famous painting of New Orleans schoolgirl Ruby Bridges, images of school desegregation often make it seem as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No modern U.S. president before Donald Trump has explicitly called for the end of diversity initiatives and targeted schools that ...

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 ...