Americans rarely marry outside of their race or class in a nation where residential segregation is relatively common. It is a ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

One of the most intimate settings of American life is the neighborhood. Neighborhoods are where Americans socialize, shop, and attend school. They are where civic matters have the most impact—and ...

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 ...

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 ...