Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, who defied bus segregation in Montgomery nine months before Rosa Parks, has died at 86 ...

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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 ...

Explore how single-family zoning influences housing segregation, limits property diversity, and impacts racial wealth gaps in ...

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 ...

Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was only 7 when the Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education case that separate but equal was unconstitutional. Before that, though, Green rode the bus from Fort ...

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Nearly seven decades after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to segregate schools by race in Brown v. Board of Education, racial and economic segregation remains "commonplace" ...