segregation

Quincy Jones conducts an orchestra in Rome in May 2004. Frank Micelotta/Getty Images by Philip Ewell, Hunter College Quincy Jones, who died on Nov. 3, 2024, at...

Oak Park, Montgomery’s first park, was white-only until the mid-1960s. Binita Mahato, CC BY-ND by Binita Mahato, Auburn University Montgomery, Alabama, touts itself as the birthplace...

Stevie Wonder. Getty Images by Nemata Blyden, University of Virginia There’s a long history of African Americans settling in Ghana or keeping in close contact with the...

“In Chicago, when we do see racial change, it’s an all or nothing thing. It goes from one extreme to another,” said Alden Loury,...

Republican National Convention (RNC) organizers are scrambling to replace signs labeling a bank of elevators the “White Elevators." The New York Daily News reports that...

*We may hear about America now being a post-racial society, but just look at some of the friendship circles and what do you see. Starting with your own, most of those friends look like you right? That’s the look of segregation, y’all. A recent study conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute showed that 91 percent of the […]

While many of the major gains in the South since the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education have been reversed in...

Segregation as pointillism? Using data gleaned from the 2010 U.S. Census, Dustin Cable at the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public...

In a piece at the Guardian, Martha Bergmark, founding president and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Justice, reflects back on the death...