A new NYU School of Medicine analysis has found that the worst life expectancy gap between neighborhoods is in Chicago, between the upper-class Streeterville neighborhood and Englewood. Englewood is 95 percent Black. Streeterville is 73 ...
Lessons on racism have a whole new meaning in public schools, and they’re popular among white educators. A Shorewood Intermediate School teacher was instructing seventh-graders about games from around the world and separated the students ...
Paul Sheehan of Dorchester, Mass., threatened NeNe Judge’Mayo, a Black motorcyclist and her husband, and yelled “F*ck that N**ger,” as the cyclists had pulled over in the Adams Village neighborhood to figure out their directions. ...
After two years of protests from students, Florida State University has agreed to remove the statue of founder Francis Eppes VII, grandson of Thomas Jefferson and known slave-owner, from the school’s entrance. “To keep the ...
President Donald Trump appointed Ben Carson secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) without any prior experience except that Carson “grew up in an inner city.” Now Carson is leaving the door ...
The mayor of a Georgia town so racially divided that even its cemetery is segregated is fighting back against the discrimination that has long plagued his residents. Mayor Rufus Davis was elected to his post ...
A politically charged speech from President Donald Trump at the Boy Scouts of America’s National Jamboree included attacks on former President Barack Obama as well as a nod to a businessman who promoted segregation. The ...
It’s 2017 and Cleveland School District in Mississippi will finally desegregate its racially divided high schools and middle schools. But the school district is now facing a federal lawsuit filed by a Black woman who ...
Following a meeting with leaders at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Education Secretary DeVos released a statement that raised questions about how much listening she did at the session. DeVos described HBCUs as “real ...
Academically challenging classes, experienced teachers and moderate disciplinary policies are housed in affluent white school districts, leaving minorities on the fringe, according to a U.S. Department of Education survey. “In general, the data shows students ...
