A mile of Alabama country road, and a history of racism, separate the two schools. At the stop sign between them, even the road’s name changes. Threadgill Road, christened for a civil rights hero, ...

A new study says intense school segregation by race and class is worsening — and it’s happening faster than just about anywhere else in the country.

No modern U.S. president before Donald Trump has explicitly called for the end of diversity initiatives and targeted schools that have programs designed to ensure equal access for all students.

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled state-sanctioned school segregation unconstitutional in the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, white parents and community leaders opened hundreds of private ...

It’s well documented that after falling for years, school segregation has risen again in the United States. But why? New research by academics at the University of Southern California and Stanford ...

Parents living on the east side of the county say their children are being left behind since wealthier, better-funded schools ...

Ms. Spiers, a contributing Opinion writer, is a journalist and a digital media strategist. After her failure to identify slavery as the cause of the Civil War generated a wave of criticism last month, ...

Segregation academies that remain vastly white continue to play an integral role in perpetuating school segregation — and, as a result, racial separation in the surrounding communities. We found these ...

When the Trump administration announced in April that it was dismissing the Department of Justice’s decades-long effort to desegregate the Plaquemines Parish School District in Louisiana, the state’s ...