SAINT PAUL, Minnesota (CN) — The Minnesota Supreme Court found Wednesday that massive racial imbalances in Twin Cities schools do not violate the state constitution’s guarantee of a “general and ...

A federal judge has rejected a potential class-action lawsuit that alleged the state has discriminated against historically Black Florida A&M University in issues such as funding and programs.

They learned how wrong they were last spring when the court refused to review the only case of de facto segregation that has yet reached it—a lower-court decision that Gary, Ind., was not ...

In treating Northern so-called “de facto” segregation as distinct from Southern de jure segregation under Jim Crow, newspapers obscured the range of state policies including school zoning ...

A website, library exhibit & read-along will show Lexington’s history of legal but racist tactics that caused segregation, ... No area of “de jure” segregation was more prevalent than housing.

After she stated that “we certainly have de jure segregation” (Harvard transcript 20:13-14), a suitably puzzled Justice Alito asked SFFA’s counsel whether he was “aware of de jure ...

The complaint lacks facts that plausibly suggest that any funding disparity is due to a policy or practice that is rooted in or flows from de jure segregation.” Attorneys for six FAMU students filed ...

That’s because we need not deny that racism still exists to acknowledge that a basic opposition to racial bigotry and de jure segregation has become a part of America’s moral fabric.

But Hinkle, whose ruling addressed U.S. Supreme Court precedents such as the 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education and a 1992 decision in a Mississippi case about segregation in higher ...

The Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling turns 70. Fulfilling the promise of a multi-racial democracy remains a work in progress.

Norman Rockwell immortalized Bridges being escorted into the school in his famous 1964 painting, “The Problem We All Live With.” In the decades since, de jure segregation mandated by law has ...

Shulman’s motion, on the other hand, referred to de facto segregation, where there’s no showing that state actors intentionally caused it. “A racially imbalanced school system, by itself, is ...