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 …..
2015/5/14-More than 1 in 4 adults who bought insurance for themselves or their families last year had to skip needed medical care because they couldn’t afford it, according to study released Thursday by Families USA, a consumer health group. Some …..
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 …..
This week in Washington, thousands of sworn officers gathered for National Police Week, an annual commemoration of the lives of officers who’ve died on the job. 2015/5/14-This year it was hard for participants to escape the shadow of the anti-police …..
2015/5/14-Local police departments have grown considerably over the past few decades, and over that time period, these forces have been employing far more officers who are women or members of a racial or ethnic minority. These changes were outlined in a new report from …..
