Segregation

New research suggests neighborhood-level diversity can reduce perceived threat, but regional diversity has the opposite effect.

• By Tom Jacobs

On racial segregation in American schools, using the example of St. Louis, Missouri, and its Normandy district.

• By Nikole Hannah-Jones

Meet the good white mothers, PTA members, and newspaper columnists who were also committed white supremacists.

• By Rebecca Stoner

In states like North Carolina, splitting up county-wide school systems often results in unequal access to resources separated down racial lines.

• By Barry Yeoman

Two poverty researchers talk about the social forces reinforcing the cycle of segregation.

• By Dwyer Gunn

Though there are practical obstacles to school integration, it's not an unreachable ideal.

• By Rachel Cohen & Will Stancil

Baltimore has seen a sharp spike in murders since the summer of 2015, which became its most violent year with 344 homicides. In 2016, the city saw 318 people murdered. This year is set to look even worse.

• By Baynard Woods

A new book by a German historian looks at the conflicting history of segregation in commercial air travel.

• By Peter C. Baker

Richard Rothstein's magisterial new book tracks how the government segregated America—and how new policy, and new education, could save us.

• By Peter C. Baker

Gardendale can take over control of its two elementary schools from the Jefferson County district this fall for a three-year period.

• By Elena Gooray

A look at the powerful forces dividing America's third-largest city into different worlds.

• By Peter C. Baker

Segregated schools are producing higher levels of criminal networking and behavior among students.

• By Dwyer Gunn

Classrooms are increasingly diverse—but in terms of the student body, not the teaching workforce. Kaylan Connally and Melissa Tooley examine why we must mind the minority gap.

• By Kaylan Connally & Melissa Tooley

Focus more on people, less on place.

• By Jim Russell

Economic theory is pessimistic about the prospects for undoing racial segregation—but experiments suggest reality isn't quite so bad.

• By Nathan Collins

An analysis of United States Census data since 1990 uncovers how infrequently black and white Americans live together today.

• By Francie Diep

The Chicago Blackhawks may be so good that "they got black people loving hockey," but the NHL is still the most segregated professional sport. Why is that?

• By Wes Judd

A new study links foreclosures to increasing racial segregation, especially in neighborhoods that had been relatively integrated.

• By Nathan Collins

The federal government’s vigilance in enforcing the court-backed desegregation of the country’s schools is a shadow of what it once was.

• By Nikole Hannah-Jones

A new look at economic and crime indicators in segregated U.S. neighborhoods finds the same old problems of inequality.

• By Michael Todd

A new computer model that maps violence patterns in urban areas says that it would.

• By Sarah Sloat

Despite social class segregation in housing, people of vastly different economic circumstances are likely to share the same subway car, at least for a few stops.

• By Jay Livingston

Schools around the nation are 'detracking' classes, putting kids of all achievement levels in the same room. Does that sabotage higher achievers?

• By Julie Halpert