ELLISVILLE, Miss. – County supervisors in Mississippi are exploring the steps necessary to remove two once-segregated water fountains. Since the move to explore their removal, people have flocked to ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- Chicago is the most segregated city in the United States, while also being one of the most diverse, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Data. How can that be possible? Because ...

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New Yorkers want a more just, respectful health care system—and they have concrete ideas for how to get there, according to a new study by CUNY SPH researchers published in the Journal of Urban Health ...

In the face of Jim Crow laws and lack of resources, African-American educators worked for decades to educate thousands of black students in segregated Wake County schools. Many of those black schools ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metro area is one of the most racially segregated metros in the country. More than half of the tri-state area's neighborhoods are extremely ...

As diversity continues to rise across the D.C. region, a new study suggests racial segregation persists in the area and across much of the country. The study, titled “The Roots of Structural Racism,” ...

During World War II, 19-year-old Frank Stevenson migrated from New Orleans, La., to Richmond, Calif., where he secured work at a Ford plant. Unable to find a place to live in the city’s segregated ...

Speaking at a black church near Ferguson, Mo., Hillary Clinton applauded efforts to remove Confederate flags before challenging America to own up to its racist past and confront "hard truths" about ...

Amid accusations of fraud and shady dealings in the presidential election, officials in Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Texas must segregate some ballots in the event they cannot be used in the final vote ...

Sixty two years after the Supreme Court ruled that America’s schools must be integrated, campuses across the country are becoming increasingly segregated by race and income. A report released Tuesday ...