Segregation

In his new book, Ken Woodley recounts how Prince Edward County, Virginia, finally began to make amends.

Over 50 years after the "Gautreaux" case began, the city's neighborhoods remain divided along racial lines.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Focus more on people, less on place.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.