It took more than 15 years for Mississippi and other Southern states to catch up to the Supreme Court's landmark desegregation decision, Brown v. Board of Education, and many in the school systems ...

Anisa Khalifa: It's been more than 70 years since the landmark court case Brown versus Board of Education fundamentally changed the American classroom. Abolishing segregation in public schools sent ...

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 ...

Part I. Ancestries : Seventy centuries of city-splitting : Before race mattered ; The long shadow of the Ziggurat ; Segregating strangers ; Scapegoat ghettos ; Quarters for classes, crafts, clans, ...