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 ...

A Montgomery County Girl Scout camp with deep ties to Black history is being honored with a Texas Historical Marker.

Picture this: two babies born on the same day, maybe even within the same hour, at the Harlem Hospital Center in New York City. One baby, born to a Black mother, goes home to her family down the ...

One of the most intimate settings of American life is the neighborhood. Neighborhoods are where Americans socialize, shop, and attend school. They are where civic matters have the most impact—and ...

In schools, racial segregation in the U.S. is often taught as a thing of the past. Textbooks look at the post-Civil War history of Jim Crow laws and the Civil Rights movement that sought to undo them.

African-American students from Saint Augustine College study while participating in a sit-in at a lunch counter reserved for white customers in Raleigh, N.C. African-American students from Saint ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. America's school-aged population has grown more diverse since the 1950s ...

Senator Bernie Sanders thinks every American “who wants or needs" a job should be able to have one. In fact, his office says they are proposing a federal job guarantee plan that would enable all ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No modern U.S. president before Donald Trump has explicitly called for the end of diversity initiatives and targeted schools that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Little shows the intensity of these inseparable and unequal interactions better than a typical day for Southern black women, ...