MIAMI (AP) — Neglect, abandonment and destruction have been the fate of thousands of segregated cemeteries across the country where African Americans – from former slaves to prominent politicians and ...

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Most Black people who live in the rural South tend to reside in less segregated neighborhoods than their urban counterparts do, according to a Daily Yonder analysis using Census data and a statistical ...

Racially segregated hospital care has produced more deaths and life-threatening hospitalizations for White and Black patients alike, according to a study published Wednesday. Writing in JAMA Health ...

In a boon for racist businesses, the administration has ended a ban on segregated facilities for federal contractors. A segregation-era sign that hung over a water fountain in Montgomery, Alabama.

Sociologist Casey Stockstill spent two years observing “all the richness happening” inside a Head Start preschool in Madison, Wisconsin. Then, she figured, she ought to look at one other early ...

Brown vs. Board of Education, the pivotal Supreme Court decision that made school segregation unconstitutional, turns 70 years old on May 17, 2024. As a professor of education and demography at Penn ...

President Donald Trump's executive order repealing President Lyndon B. Johnson's 1965 executive order on nondiscrimination and federal contracts means the federal government no longer explicitly ...

After a recent change by the Trump administration, the federal government no longer explicitly prohibits contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains. While ...