America's sprawling urban landscapes, often celebrated as melting pots, hide a surprising truth: rather than being bastions of diversity, they are hotbeds of segregation. This revelation, presented in ...

Nearly 50 years have passed since Kamala Harris joined the legions of children bused to schools in distant neighborhoods as the United States attempted to integrate its racially segregated public ...

An aerial photograph in 1953 of the San Fernando Valley, then undergoing a building boom. Fair housing officials knew of only one Black family able to find a home between 1950 and 1960 in the white ...

I spent late Saturday afternoon in what has become for me a rite of Spring. I watched the Kentucky Derby. I am no afficionado of horse racing and will not betray my ignorance of the sport’s desiderata ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) defended the right to protest in a Friday video, crediting nonviolent protests for much of the progress American society has made historically. Sanders made his stance clear ...

A new art exhibition in Milwaukee, called “Ghosts of Segregation,” features photos of physical remnants of the Jim Crow era. The pictures depict places like businesses that had separate entrances for ...

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Representatives of the Congress of Racial Equality and student groups mass at the Columbus City Hall steps on April 18, 1964 to support civil rights leaders protesting alleged de factor segregation in ...

Today, for many Americans, the word “ghetto” conjures images of run-down and crime-ridden African American segregated areas—“inner cities,” in a common euphemism. This connotation is relatively recent ...

After the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964 and 1968, many white Southerners were outraged. They believed that the federal government and the Republican Party had abandoned their values by ...

America’s sprawling urban landscapes, often celebrated as melting pots, hide a surprising truth: rather than being bastions of diversity, they are hotbeds of segregation. This revelation, presented in ...