Neighborhood segregation resulted from racially explicit laws, regulations and government practices that created a system of urban ghettos and white suburbs that still exist today. This is opposite to ...

A new report ranking urban hospitals based on their racial inclusivity is ruffling some feathers. On Tuesday, the Lown Institute released the first standalone report that examined the racial makeup of ...

Soon after the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling that segregated schools are “inherently unequal,” many Negroes hoped that Northern de facto segregation caused by housing patterns would be labeled just as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A coalition of advocacy groups and parents sued the state in 2018 alleging there is de facto segregation in New Jersey’s public ...

Spectators filled the seats, clogged the aisles and lingered in the hallways of Hutchins Hall Auditorium Friday evening, searching for a place to hear Jonathan Kozol, the keynote speaker for the ...

Are school boards constitutionally obliged to remedy school segregation caused by housing patterns? No, implied the Supreme Court last spring when it refused to review a lower-court decision ...

“No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in health care?” wrote the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in a tweet promoting its podcast in early March 2021. In ...

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SAINT PAUL, Minnesota (CN) — The Minnesota Supreme Court found Wednesday that massive racial imbalances in Twin Cities schools do not violate the state constitution’s guarantee of a “general and ...

On a June afternoon in 1966, the Rev. Dr. Virgil A. Wood strode through the auditorium door at the Patrick T. Campbell Junior High in Roxbury and called out to the school principal on the stage where ...