Although she remained a largely unsung figure in the civil rights movement for decades, Colvin's 1955 act of rebellion ...

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, who defied bus segregation in Montgomery nine months before Rosa Parks, has died at 86 ...

But between 1991 and 2009, the DOJ dropped 200 court orders — and in every instance, segregation began to slowly increase. Part of the issue is that school districts are based on neighborhoods, and ...

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

Debates in the U.S. over income inequality have taken center stage in recent years, but its existence in our cities is of long standing concern. Major metro areas have been magnets for both the rich ...