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Racial Justice

Examining Race and Racism in America

384 stories published since 2008

Supreme Court’s Latest Race Case: Housing Discrimination

A National Survey of School Desegregation Orders

Podcast: Ferguson’s Untold Tragedy of School Segregation

School Segregation, the Continuing Tragedy of Ferguson

How Do You Experience Segregation? Tell Us What #SegregationIs Where You Live

How Do You Experience Segregation? Tell Us What #SegregationIs Where You Live

Podcast: The Racial Disparity in Fatal Police Shootings

Deadly Force, in Black and White

The Hidden Cost of Gun Violence: Meet a Mother and Her 7-Year-Old With PTSD

In His Professional Twilight, a Son of Mississippi Considers His Legacy on Race

Interview With Civil Rights Legend John Lewis: Audio

Long a Force for Progress, a Freedom Summer Legend Looks Back

What to Look For In Dueling Autopsies of Michael Brown

Six Days in Ferguson: Voices from the Protests

When Freedom Summer Landed in White America’s Living Rooms

In Desegregation Case, Judge Blasts School Officials and Justice Department

Podcast: Dispatches from Freedom Summer

Ghosts of Greenwood: Audio

Ghosts of Greenwood

Ghosts of Greenwood: Photos

Student Perspectives on Race and Education in Tuscaloosa

Discussion: School Resegregation 60 Years After Brown v. Board

Podcast: Resegregation, 60 Years Later

Desegregation Court Records

School Segregation After Brown

Segregation Now: ProPublica to Present Student Photos on Race in Education

ProPublica Presents Student Photos on Resegregation of Schools

Segregation Now

Source Notes for 'Segregation Now'

A Note to Our Readers on 'Segregation Now'

Video: Saving Central

Share Your Six Words on Race and Education in America

Share Your Six Words on Race and Education

Timeline: From Brown v. Board to Segregation Now

Segregation Now: 60 Years After Brown v. Board

HUD Finally Stirs on Housing Discrimination

The Impact and Echoes of the Wal-Mart Discrimination Case

March on Washington Anniversary: Great Reads on Racial Justice

Law to Clean Up 'Nuisances' Costs Innocent People Their Homes

Timeline: America’s Long Civil Rights March

America's Long Civil Rights March, Complete With Stops and Starts

Top Questions from our Q&A on the Affirmative Action Decision

Housing Crisis: Widespread Discrimination; Little Taste for Enforcement

Are California Prisons Punishing Inmates Based on Race?

Another Race Case for a Hostile Supreme Court

Five Ways Courts Say Texas Discriminated Against Black and Latino Voters

Land Grab Cheats North Dakota Tribes Out of $1 Billion, Suits Allege

Audit: Blacks, Latinos Still Likely to Face Housing Bias in Whitest Parts of Westchester

Housing Segregation: The Great Migration and Beyond

No Sting: Feds Won't Go Undercover to Prove Housing Discrimination