State-sanctioned racial segregation ended with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 but has recently returned in an unlikely place: government agencies in Seattle. According to new whistleblower documents ...

While a Franklin County judge considers whether Ohio's school voucher program is constitutional, a new study from two Ohio State University professors refutes several claims made by opponents of the ...

In Friday’s long-anticipated state Superior Court decision, a judge ruled that New Jersey has avoided its responsibility to address segregation in its schools but that the problem is not statewide.

COLUMBUS — A new study proposes reducing the number of school districts in Ohio by redrawing district lines to decrease rates ...

Imagine if, in 1950, Mississippi had passed a law that authorized every Mississippian to sue anyone in the United States who interfered in any way with the state’s then policy of segregation. Imagine ...

A two-pronged attack is necessary to break down structural barriers that are preventing low-income families from finding affordable housing. A new building sits between two older buildings in the East ...

A pair of new reports by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Penn State explores the contours of school segregation by race and poverty in Virginia over the past decade and reveals how ...

Two reports on the effects of school segregation and how to address them came out Tuesday, almost exactly a year after the state argued that the school system would need to be “rebuilt brick by brick” ...

* Alabama, S. Carolina said to violate international law * Only two U.S. states that isolate HIV-positive prisoners MIAMI, April 14 (Reuters) - Alabama and South Carolina are subjecting HIV-positive ...

In the halls of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, the statue of a Black teenager who fought against segregation replaced a ...