ELLISVILLE, Miss. – County supervisors in Mississippi are exploring the steps necessary to remove two once-segregated water fountains. Since the move to explore their removal, people have flocked to ...

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CHICAGO (CBS)-- Chicago is the most segregated city in the United States, while also being one of the most diverse, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Data. How can that be possible? Because ...

During World War II, 19-year-old Frank Stevenson migrated from New Orleans, La., to Richmond, Calif., where he secured work at a Ford plant. Unable to find a place to live in the city’s segregated ...

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If you ask Stephen Menendian why his research at UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute is important, he won’t hesitate. “It matters to me because society has only begun to grapple with the ...

In the face of Jim Crow laws and lack of resources, African-American educators worked for decades to educate thousands of black students in segregated Wake County schools. Many of those black schools ...

As diversity continues to rise across the D.C. region, a new study suggests racial segregation persists in the area and across much of the country. The study, titled “The Roots of Structural Racism,” ...

U.S. cities and neighborhoods have become more starkly divided along ethnic lines, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. The study from the Othering & ...

Note: Based on the reader response to this article, Denvir penned a follow-up, “Five myths about the 10 most segregated metro areas.” You can find that piece here. Decades after the end of Jim Crow, ...

The U.S. student body is more diverse than ever before. Nevertheless, public schools remain highly segregated along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. That's according to a report released ...

Next year will mark the 50-year anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act. The landmark bill prohibited by law long-standing practices of housing segregation ...