In addition to being the most segregated big city in America, Chicago may also be the worst big city for Black economic mobility.

There is a disconnect between how we think about racial segregation and how we measure it. When people think about segregation, they typically think about the people that live next door to them, in ...

Kristine Scott and other women transferred to a minimum-security prison in Boise found themselves in segregated housing due ...

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 ...

(We’re a nonprofit. Your donation is tax-deductible and processed securely.) There’s a new narrative that U.S. schools are “resegregating” along racial lines. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights used ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --The Morning Insiders take a look at a sensitive subject: race and segregation in Chicago. There are some striking patterns involving who lives where in Chicago, and why. CBS 2's Vince ...

African-American students from Saint Augustine College study while participating in a sit-in at a lunch counter reserved for white customers in Raleigh, N.C. African-American students from Saint ...

In schools, racial segregation in the U.S. is often taught as a thing of the past. Textbooks look at the post-Civil War history of Jim Crow laws and the Civil Rights movement that sought to undo them.

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. America's school-aged population has grown more diverse since the 1950s, but "this diversity still doesn't always ...