Seventy years ago Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. The decision rejected the “separate but equal” doctrine ...

In addition to being the most segregated big city in America, Chicago may also be the worst big city for Black economic mobility.

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 ...

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 ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. America's school-aged population has grown more diverse since the 1950s, but "this diversity still doesn't always ...

This language is part of a racially restricted convenant placed on deeds for houses in the Kenwick area when it was first developed in 1909. Lexington The two of us began reading and learning about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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