This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Joe Biden’s opposition to busing for school desegregation in the 1970s reveals how white liberalism played a central role in ...

One hundred days after the death of Michael Brown Jr., the State of Missouri by executive order established a commission to conduct “a thorough, wide-ranging and unflinching study of the social and ...

Soon after the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling that segregated schools are “inherently unequal,” many Negroes hoped that Northern de facto segregation caused by housing patterns would be labeled just as ...

Popularized by U.S. Supreme Court majorities from the 1970s to today, the de facto segregation myth has been adopted by conventional opinion, liberal and conservative alike. Contrary to popular belief ...

Massachusetts Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren wrote a 31-page paper on busing and segregation as a law student in 1975, and Mediaite has obtained the full article. The ...

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden said Sen. Kamala Harris "mischaracterized" his view on segregation and school bussing at Thursday night's debate and said he ...

TALLAHASSEE — 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 ...

Richard Rothstein's new book, "The Color of Law, A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America," explains how, for more than 100 years, the U.S. government practiced, enforced and ...

Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He lives in California, where he is a Fellow ...

TALLAHASSEE — 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 ...