Getting words right can clear up a lot of confusion about politics and public policy. Example: "segregate" is a verb that requires a subject. "Segregate" is not an impersonal verb, nor is "segregation ...

Just a week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968, Congress passed the Fair Housing Act, which outlaws discrimination in housing. Sen. Edward Brooke (R-Mass.) and the first ...

Many Americans undoubtedly recognize Norman Rockwell’s 1967 painting, “New Kids in the Neighborhood.” It shows three white and two black children checking each other out as movers unload the black ...

In 1968, Congress passed the Fair Housing Act in an attempt to end public policies and banking practices that had enforced racial segregation for decades. Before signing it into law, President Lyndon ...

Although Supreme Court rulings, i.e., the ban on bus segregation in Montgomery, Ala., have made “every segregation act or law of any state as dead as a doornail,” declared U.S. District Judge Dozier ...

The Fair Housing Act turns 50 this year, yet there are significant patterns of residential segregation in all of the nation’s largest metros, according to two new surveys. But is the segregation ...

Getting words right can clear up a lot of confusion about politics and public policy. Example: “segregate” is a verb that requires a subject. “Segregate” is not an impersonal verb, nor is “segregation ...

One segregates by deliberately setting one class of people or things apart from another. Some segregation is unproblematic. A fruit vendor segregates ripe fruit from spoiled fruit. And some ...

In an article sprinkled with versions of the word "segregation," he takes care to note that white-black and white-Hispanic "segregation indexes" did decline somewhat from 2000 to 2020, and that "white ...