Richard Rothstein, who studies residential segregation in America, concludes: "Federal, state and local governments purposely created racial... Historian Says Don't 'Sanitize' How Our Government ...

The original root language of "ghetto" is unknown. But its original meaning has long been clear. By the 17th century, Rome and Venice had... As you might have gathered from our blog's title, the Code ...

Today, for many Americans, the word “ghetto” conjures images of run-down and crime-ridden African American segregated areas—“inner cities,” in a common euphemism. This connotation is relatively recent ...

Arnold R. Hirsch, a historian whose landmark study of Chicago documented the role of government policy in creating highly segregated African-American ghettos during the mid-20th century, died on March ...

The 20,000 Jews of the city of Stanislawow, Nazi-occupied Galicia, have been removed to a ghetto in the suburb of Belvedere, according to a report published in the pro-Nazi Ukrainian newspaper ...

There was a time when ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and stateless Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar lived and worked together. They were once neighbours, albeit uneasy ones, sharing a tense but ...