School segregation has remained a hot-button political issue since Brown vs. Board of Education, a landmark 1954 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the justices ruled that state laws ...

The policies of the New Deal era policies that systematically excluded Black people from home ownership continue today in the form of lending bias that leads to racial, ethnic, and economic ...

Language skills are one of the key factors to explain residential segregation and play an important role in understanding immigrant residential environments, new research from the University of ...

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 ...

The United States must reduce racial residential segregation if it is to reduce racial disparities in health outcomes, according to a recently published study. The research on 220 metropolitan areas ...

Social scientists have long studied patterns of racial and ethnic segregation because of the close connection between a group’s spatial position in society and its socioeconomic well-being.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NEW ORLEANS — A new study identified a link between persistent racial residential segregation and worse diabetes ...

The U.S. must reduce racial residential segregation if it is to reduce racial disparities in health outcomes, according to a recently published study by researchers at Tufts University School of ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Race Deconstructed newsletter. To get it in your inbox every week, sign up for free here. Buckhead wants to cut out of the Black Mecca. According to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial photograph in 1953 of the San Fernando Valley, then undergoing a building boom. Fair housing officials knew of only one ...

A staggering 81% of metropolitan regions across the nation have become more racially segregated since the 1990s, according to findings from UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute. The Roots of ...

Black and Hispanic adults who live in racially segregated neighborhoods may be more likely to develop high blood pressure than their peers who live in nonsegregated communities, a new study shows. The ...