Claudette Colvin: Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, who defied bus segregation in Montgomery nine months before Rosa ...

Although she remained a largely unsung figure in the civil rights movement for decades, Colvin's 1955 act of rebellion ...

The General Services Administration lifted a requirement for the prohibition of segregated facilities in government contracts.

It was 50 years ago today that the Supreme Court's unanimous decision in Brown v Board of Education banned segregation in public schools, saying that separate schools could not be equal. It was 20 ...

Explore how single-family zoning influences housing segregation, limits property diversity, and impacts racial wealth gaps in American cities. Learn the history and effects.

Debates in the U.S. over income inequality have taken center stage in recent years, but its existence in our cities is of long standing concern. Major metro areas have been magnets for both the rich ...