Milwaukee may be backing its way into greater integration not primarily through rhetoric, but through changing market ...

There is a disconnect between how we think about racial segregation and how we measure it. When people think about segregation, they typically think about the people that live next door to them, in ...

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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 ...

The lawsuit says that more than 225,000 students, about one in four, attend segregated non-white schools ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Little shows the intensity of these inseparable and unequal interactions better than a typical day for Southern black women, ...

Racially segregated public schools have been illegal in Massachusetts since before the Civil War, and nationwide since the ...

In schools, racial segregation in the U.S. is often taught as a thing of the past. Textbooks look at the post-Civil War history of Jim Crow laws and the Civil Rights movement that sought to undo them.

The lawsuit says districting practices violate the Constitution's guarantee that all students receive an adequate education.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metro area is one of the most racially segregated metros in the country. More than half of the tri-state area's neighborhoods are extremely ...

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 ...