A ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across states in the Deep South: Alongside majority-Black public school districts ...

That year, the Supreme Court required the county to abolish its separate Black and white schools and students were reassigned to different schools to integrate them. Sponsored This graph above, ...

failed to protect the civil rights of black citizens. In the end, white segregation rested on open violence. At the turn of the century, lynchings occurred every week, and most of the victims ...

New sociological research finds that school segregation continues to widen racial achievement gaps among Black, Hispanic, and white students in U.S. public schools. Analyzing standardized test ...

First, I asked how, as a historian, she became interested in “segregation scholarships.” She shared, “Growing up in rural North Carolina, I noticed that many of the retired Black public ...

and activists fighting for de-segregation and civil rights, often at great risks to themselves. D. Gorton An image from a working-class area of Atlanta where white and black children played ...

The area is part of the region’s Black Belt, where rich soils fueled cotton plantations. (Greg Kahn, special to ProPublica) Of the 20 vastly white segregation academies we identified that ...

After that, Belton notes, the Telegraph wrote racial segregation into its ticket policy, so that black people could only buy the cheapest tickets, to travel in the common cabin, while white people ...

Rashad Bailey is a Black business owner in a majority white Chicago neighborhood. Rashad Bailey, the owner of Dinner and a Movie, is feeling the heat, not from the kitchen, but the neighborhood of ...

If you measure segregation in a way that accounts for this, instead of just measuring black students’ exposure to white students, you find that there’s no increase. This has generated some ...