It’s well documented that after falling for years, school segregation has risen again in the United States. But why? New research by academics at the University of Southern California and Stanford ...

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit that alleges the state Education Department is responsible for continuing de-facto — or incidental — segregation in New Jersey's public schools are making progress in closed ...

An ecological theory may help to explain why segregation is so widespread and persistent in US cities, according to a new article. The new way of framing segregation's endurance may provide a useful ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of an occasional series examining how educators are responding to the persistence of racial segregation in Massachusetts schools. HOLYOKE — The top school official in ...

This city, once dubbed “Heavenly Houston,” has long touted its harmonious racial and ethnic diversity. But the real story is, of course, more complicated. In the newly published “Houston and the ...

There is a long-standing assumption that large, densely populated cities inherently foster interactions between a diverse range of people. Analysis of 1.6 billion person-to-person encounters in the ...

In the late 1940s Black community members were relegated to substandard housing in certain parts of Louisville. Cheri Bryant Hamilton, longtime Chickasaw resident, former city council member and ...

This Federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HLOC) map of Baltimore from 1937 illustrates patterns of segregation that accompanied discriminatory practices in federal policy and the real estate ...