What ever happened to the American dream?
Economic mobility has declined in the U.S. for decades but Harvard professor Raj Chetty is seeking ways to reverse the trend.
5-Year-Old Sarah Roberts Resisted Segregation 100 Years Before Brown v. Board of Education
Unlike Black children who had to leave their neighborhoods to seek an education, white children in Boston had the option to ...
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are still targets of hatred 5 years after pandemic surge
It seemed unfathomable she was facing such anti-Asian vitriol nearly a century after her aunt, pioneering movie star Anna May ...
Civil rights groups say push to dismantle Education Department will undo hard-won gains
The decision kicked off decades of debates over discrimination and educational access in communities across the nation. The ...
Federal jobs were seen as a gateway to the middle class for Black America, then came DOGE
As the nation’s largest employer, the federal government has been more welcoming to Black workers than the private sector.
Did You Know: America Closed Schools And Passed 450 Laws To Block Racial Integration
The coordinated campaign to defy Brown v. Board continues to impact education today, as many schools remain racially ...
The Irish Times18d
End of segregation in Northern Ireland is a long way off, report finds
More than 30 years on from the IRA’s ceasefire and more than 25 years after the Belfast Agreement was signed, the Catholic-Protestant divide in Northern Ireland still looms large. Teaching ...
lpm19d
Meet the man who helped end public segregation in Louisville
Fifth. They were charged with delinquency and breach of peace. In 1961 a teenager led a movement that helped overturn racial segregation in Louisville. Today, Louisville’s businesses are prohibited ...