Neighborhood segregation resulted from racially explicit laws, regulations and government practices that created a system of urban ghettos and white suburbs that still exist today. This is opposite to ...

Soon after the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling that segregated schools are “inherently unequal,” many Negroes hoped that Northern de facto segregation caused by housing patterns would be labeled just as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A coalition of advocacy groups and parents sued the state in 2018 alleging there is de facto segregation in New Jersey’s public ...

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A new report ranking urban hospitals based on their racial inclusivity is ruffling some feathers. On Tuesday, the Lown Institute released the first standalone report that examined the racial makeup of ...

Although the U.S. Supreme Court has clearly ruled that separate school systems for whites and Negroes are unconstitutional, de facto segregation resulting from residential patterns has until now ...

Gov. Phil Murphy's administration has begun mediation discussions with a coalition of New Jersey nonprofits that sued the state alleging pervasive de facto segregation across the state’s public ...

Spectators filled the seats, clogged the aisles and lingered in the hallways of Hutchins Hall Auditorium Friday evening, searching for a place to hear Jonathan Kozol, the keynote speaker for the ...

SAINT PAUL, Minnesota (CN) — The Minnesota Supreme Court found Wednesday that massive racial imbalances in Twin Cities schools do not violate the state constitution’s guarantee of a “general and ...