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

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 ...

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 ...

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A 1976 court order reshaped Milwaukee schools, but segregation has endured. Fifty years later, leaders reflect on its legacy ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...