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, ...

CHICAGO (AP) — As a child, Linda Davis and her mother broke clay pots over the gravesites of their ancestors, allowing the flowers in them to take root. When she returned to Brooklyn Cemetery in ...

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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, ...

A century ago, Virginia's Racial Integrity Act became a model for segregation. Its impact on Native people is still felt.

Segregation is a common tale in American cities — most practiced discrimination in housing loans and urban renewal — but at the same time, every town has its own unique narratives. After the Civil War ...

Leah Rothstein is full of remedies for housing segregation, many of which she includes in her new book, Just Action. The housing policy expert and former community organizer co-authored the book with ...

When Wendy Ellis’s grandparents decided to move from their home in Avondale in 1966, her grandfather knew he couldn't do the house hunting. The problem wasn’t his qualifications as a homebuyer. Ellis’ ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- There's history untold amid the dozens of neighborhoods in the city of Raleigh. How those neighborhoods came to be often gets lost in time. And that can be especially true if ...

Jacksonville Beach Police Department says it's working multiple investigations in the area of Beach Boulevard and 2nd Street. Read full article: Winter has returned with dangerously high winds, dry ...