Ms. Spiers, a contributing Opinion writer, is a journalist and a digital media strategist. After her failure to identify slavery as the cause of the Civil War generated a wave of criticism last month, ...

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Residential segregation and neighborhood-level socioeconomic inequality are central dimensions of social stratification and structural determinants of health. These factors determine exposure to ...

Alabama Republican congressional candidate Caroleene Dobson, who has been vocal about her support of school choice on the campaign trail, graduated from a private, so-called “segregation academy,” in ...

Part I. Ancestries : Seventy centuries of city-splitting : Before race mattered ; The long shadow of the Ziggurat ; Segregating strangers ; Scapegoat ghettos ; Quarters for classes, crafts, clans, ...

Racial segregation in public schools and the controversial concept of "separate but equal" were unanimously declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court on this day in history, May 17, ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer ...