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White Detroit residents protest black occupancy of the Sojourner Truth Homes, Feb. 1942. Does this photo from 1942 bother you? It should. But what should bother us more is the current status of housing/neighborhood integration in the United States, where there are no signs or angry mobs to keep people out of certain neighborhoods, and yet the pernicious practice continues.
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Your daily dose of civil rights and related news The White House is asking its (now totally apolitical!) Justice Department to hamper 200,000 Ohio residents from voting. Black voters are really nervous about the integrity of this el... Read Post

Among blacks and whites, not really. But if you look at Latinos, yes: The presence of Latinos in black neighborhoods has doubled since 1980, from 8.2 to 16.4 percent. Similarly, the declining homogeneity of white neighborhoods does ... Read Post

A top White House official defended President Barack Obama's handling of information that the IRS had targeted conservative groups seeking nonprofit status, warning Republicans in Congress against playing politics with the revelatio... Read Post