There is a disconnect between how we think about racial segregation and how we measure it. When people think about segregation, they typically think about the people that live next door to them, in ...

Residential segregation between blacks and whites persists today, even though Congress outlawed overt housing discrimination a half century ago. The most segregated metropolitan areas, though, are not ...

From white violence to the rise of exclusive swim clubs, people of color have long faced barriers to American swimming pools. In the 1920s, swimmers cool off at the Fairgrounds Pool in Saint Louis, ...

The Manhattan Institute just released a new study by economists Ed Glaeser and Jacob Vigdor called “The End of the Segregated Century.” It cheerfully notes that segregation is at its lowest level ...

Segregation was never good for black people. We were not better off during Jim Crow. Not even a little bit. Those who wax nostalgically about how we thrived during segregation and leveraged it to our ...

America has largely given up trying to desegregate its schools. Politicians have capitulated to reactionary white parents and activists who have successfully fought for decades against the ...

New Yorkers want a more just, respectful health care system—and they have concrete ideas for how to get there, according to a new study by CUNY SPH researchers published in the Journal of Urban Health ...

It would be unrealistic not to acknowledge that far too many of our public schools are troubled with low performance (due to a variety of factors) that understandably prompts many parents and ...

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