racial segregation

MSU football's 1965 and '66 teams were the first in the country to fully integrate. They were also among the first to recruit Black players from the south. On the heels of those team's induction to MSU's Athletics Hall of Fame, the "Teams of the Century" documentary heard from players, coaches, and students from those pivotal years of MSU football to learn how their stories built an enduring legacy.

Metro Detroit is one of the most racially segregated areas in the country. And when you're a Black person from a place like this, you probably learn to code switch at an early age. Today, Black people code switching as they move between majority white spaces and majority black spaces, something that's often necessary in order to get by in the world.

Detroit is the most segregated city in America, according to a new study from the Othering and Belonging Institute at the University of…

Activists took to the streets of Eight Mile Road again Wednesday evening to draw attention to the Detroit area’s racial divisions. Eight Mile has long…

A new report maps out which neighboring Michigan school districts are the most segregated by race, poverty, and revenue. It comes 45 years after the U.S.…

Lynching is one of this country's darkest legacies. It claimed the lives of thousands of black Americans, particularly in the South. But the South wasn't…

A new analysis has found that Michigan's schools are extremely segregated.Jennifer Chambers and Christine MacDonald with the Detroit News report that the…

The legacy of discrimination against people of color and discrimination against certain religions is powerfully present in Michigan cities to this day.A…

Just look at the racial census makeup of school districts in Michigan. The numbers from the state Department of Education show districts in Michigan are…

More than 152,000 students in metro Detroit attend class in a district or charter other than the district where they live. As minorities move into some…