2015/5/14-Fifty years after the repeal of Jim Crow, many African-Americans still live in segregated ghettos in the country’s metropolitan areas. Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, has spent years studying the history of residential segregation in …..
Racism is still rampant in real estate. 2015/5/14-In 1934, Homer Hoyt wrote a dissertation—“One Hundred Years of Land Values in Chicago: The Relationship of the Growth of Chicago to the Rise of Its Land Values, 1830–1933”—that ranked various races and …..
2015/5/13-In public appearances and classes this semester, I’ve talked about eating better and improving the food system in ways that would enable more of us to do so. That’s a discussion about food. Invariably, someone asks me, “How do you …..
The recession came and went, but the cuts to higher education stayed. 2015/5/13-Spending per student remains below—in some cases well below—pre-recession levels in 47 states, reflecting years of cuts to public colleges and universities that have yet to be undone, the Center on …..
2015/5/13-The night that violence erupted in the Baltimore protests, Leah Eliza Balter, who had marched in the protests earlier that day, was crushed by the media coverage that emphasized burning flags and looting. “This is a skewed portrayal of the …..
