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 ...

Explore how single-family zoning influences housing segregation, limits property diversity, and impacts racial wealth gaps in ...

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.

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 ...

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” ...

Prompted by dismal reports from experts, a federal judge in East St. Louis has approved class-action status for a lawsuit aimed at improving conditions for prison inmates in Illinois who’ve been ...

Segregated schools in North Carolina have received millions in taxpayer-funded tuition payments. Together, charter schools and private school tuition voucher programs have contributed to resegregating ...