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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Here, plaintiffs have not sufficiently alleged that the challenged policies are traceable to de jure segregation or that they have segregative effects.” Originally Published: June 15, 2023 at ...

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.