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

During Black History Month and beyond, Americans are generally taught to believe that contact between white and black Americans was gradually prohibited after Reconstruction through a combination of ...

The integration battles of the Civil Rights era happened more than half a century ago, but the U.S. is getting more, not less, segregated, as that past recedes. More than 80% of large metropolitan ...

Evolution has led to the development of many different strategies for the survival of species. The relative evolutionary success of mammals has been made possible by sophisticated brains that can ...

There is a disconnect between how we think about racial segregation and how we measure it. When people think about segregation, they typically think about the people that live next door to them, in ...

Urban schools don’t inspire much confidence these days. Politicians and policy leaders routinely bemoan their quality. And media outlets regularly run stories of “failing urban schools.” Middle- and ...

Racial segregation in the U.S. housing market has ebbed since its peak, around 1960. But it can be hard to find a truly integrated American neighborhood, according to demographer John Logan of Brown ...

Economic inequality can hinder economic growth, erode social cohesion and lead to political polarisation. Yet, a US-based survey across income groups revealed that fewer than half of those polled ...

Opportunities to succeed in corporate America are often not distributed equally, with marginalized populations facing many more barriers to being hired and promoted. While there is important work that ...