Segregation

The reporting team is launching a series focusing on segregation in Norfolk, Virginia.

Felicitas Mendez is remembered for successfully suing a school district that refused to enroll her children based on their ethnicity, paving the way for the integration of Californian public schools.

The future U.S. Congressman John Lewis was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961 for using a "white" bathroom during his time as a young civil rights activist.

When Republican politicians brag about living in the suburbs and call for "law and order" to keep cities in line, they are denying America's history of systemic racism—and its strong geographic components.

"It was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States Senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race," Harris told Biden last year.

The ruins of a forgotten largely African American cemetery were apparently found buried underneath a Florida high school after scans revealed 145 coffins on school property, officials announced Wednesday.

Numerous people shared the image of the two fountains on social media and called for the school to investigate.

"Look, my record stands for itself. I've never been accused by anybody in my state or when I've been running as not being an overwhelming supporter of civil rights and civil liberties," he said.

Joe Biden compared the election of President Donald Trump to the "reawakening" that occurred among Baby Boomers after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy.

"The refusal by some nominees to say that [Brown v. Board of Ed] was correctly decided sends a dangerous signal to all Americans—especially African Americans," wrote Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference in a letter to Senate.

The Pew Research Center survey finds that Americans largely interact with members of their own race or ethnicity.

With hate crimes on the rise, the message from activist lawyer Bryan Stevenson couldn't be more urgent.

Hyde-Smith has faced backlash ever since she made racially-charged remarks during a campaign appearance on November 2 where she made reference to a "public hanging."

The school's director defended the policy on the basis that research shows there are benefits to students being in classrooms with students of the same racial background.

American schools are as racially divided today as they were in the 1960s. Case in point: Charlotte, North Carolina.

"There's a lot of fear that we are sliding back, that the worst times may come again."

Poverty and segregation drive the gap between public schools across the United States.

And what the president can nevertheless learn from the museum.

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration will open on April 26, 2018.

Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative partnered with the Brooklyn Museum on a new exhibit that confronts 'racial terror in America,' from slavery through mass incarceration.

The attorney general is the true white nationalist messiah and the wheelhouse of the Trump Revolution.

Schools across the United States are becoming less diverse, says a troubling new report.

While racial segregation in U.S. schools plummeted between the late 1960s and 1980, it has steadily increased ever since.

Once the rights of racists and even Nazis were fiercely defended by liberal groups.

The most remarkable thing about school integration in the United States is how rare it is, and has always been.

British neighborhoods have never been more ethnically mixed.

"While this always gets framed as an issue about parents and their children, it's actually about everybody," Oliver says. "Because kids grow up."

The decision came after a 50-year battle with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Right-wing politician Bezalel Smotrich tweeted that he does not "enjoy being next to" Arabs.

Half of Charlotte's schools have at least 80 percent of students of one race.