According to the Urban Institute, a think-tank, Atlanta was the 41st most segregated of 100 large American metropolises in 2010 (down from 21st most segregated in 1990).
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It was the most segregated world I have ever encountered.
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He was born poor to a single mom, born minority black in a segregated environment, New Jersey I think we are the fifth-most segregated state for African Americans, fourth-most segregated for Latinos.
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By some measures, Milwaukee is the most segregated city in America.
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And historically it has been one of America's most segregated cities.
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But it is also among the most segregated cities in the country.
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Narrator: Detroit is one of the most segregated cities in the country.
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Still, Milwaukee remains one of the most segregated cities in the country.
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But its public schools are among the most segregated in the nation.
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Kansas City is one of the most segregated cities in the United States.
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Statistics show his city is one of the most segregated in the nation.
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New York's education system remains one of the most segregated in the country.
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For one, the Milwaukee metropolitan area is the most segregated in the country.
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Because Milwaukee regularly comes up No. 1 on lists of America's most segregated cities.
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Hempstead and Roosevelt are among the poorest and most segregated districts in Nassau County.
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And New York City schools remain some of the most segregated in the nation.
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To whom it should concern, NYC has the most segregated schools in the country.
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America remains a racially divided country, and Chicago is one of its most segregated cities.
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It has America's highest per-capita murder rate and remains one of its most segregated cities.
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This pattern has endured: Milwaukee came top of a recent ranking of America's most segregated cities.
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This is the most segregated state in the country in housing, and schools, in our cities.
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Board of Education, the school system is now one of the most segregated in the nation.
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Yet one aspect has barely changed: Its public schools remain among the most segregated in the country.
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The legacy of that decision persists; Baltimore is still one of the most segregated cities in America.
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Some of the most segregated schools in the country educate students in New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Milwaukee.
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Yet one aspect has barely changed: The city's public schools remain among the most segregated in the nation.
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Even now, though, St. Louis is one of the country's most segregated cities, according to a 2017 study.
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New York City's public school system is already one of the most segregated and unequal in the country.
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Research from the Brookings Institute, among others, has empirically concluded that it is the most segregated city in America.
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According to the Brookings report, New York is still the second-most segregated urban environment in the United States.
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A 2014 report found that New York City has one of the most segregated school systems in the country.
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Martin Luther King Jr. famously said that the most segregated hour in America is 75 o'clock on a Sunday morning.
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And while all three places can call themselves diverse, only Chicago is considered to be one of the most segregated.
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The specialized high schools continue to exemplify why New York City has the most segregated school system in the country.
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Milwaukee is the most segregated major city between black and white residents, according to a city of Milwaukee health assessment.
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Chicago is one of the most diverse cities in the country—but it is also one of the most segregated.
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We work on getting rid of school segregation in New York, which has the most segregated schools in the country.
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For generations, black churches have served as sources of refuge from and resistance to the racism pervading America's Christian pulpits: "I think it is one of the tragedies of our nation ... that 11 o'clock on Sunday morning is one of the most segregated hours, if not the most segregated hour, in Christian America," the Rev.
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And romantic comedies remain one of the most segregated genres to this day, precluding many black-led films from critical consideration.
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Milwaukee has the unfortunate distinction of being the country's most segregated city between blacks and whites, according to a recent study.
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In 2014, the Civil Rights Project at U.C.L.A. found that New York State's schools were the most segregated in the nation.
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Indeed, UCLA's Civil Rights Project reported this month that the nation's most segregated school systems are in New York, Illinois and Maryland.
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Compared with those in the least segregated areas, patients in the most segregated areas were 65 percent less likely to receive surgery.
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Richard Carranza inherited one of the country's most segregated systems, where officials have avoided change and where entrenched policies feed the problem.
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How might these now 45 million people, still the most segregated of all groups in America, partake of the full fruits of citizenship?
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New York City, for example, is home to one of the country's largest population of progressives — and one its most segregated school systems.
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Nevertheless it effectively details the long history of racial conflict and abuse that has led to Chicago becoming one of America's most segregated cities.
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In the course of a decade, it went from being the most segregated region of the country for black schoolchildren to the most integrated.
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As Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote on Twitter, our country's educational system has always been insufficient for black Americans who attend the most segregated, poorest schools.
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Today, New Jersey is the sixth most segregated state in the nation for black students, and seventh for Latino students, according to a U.C.L.A. study.
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Minneapolis is among the most segregated and unequal cities in America, a fact at odds with its self-image as a tolerant and diverse community.
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Many of the most segregated schools are in states that were less touched by the civil-rights push than was the South: California, Illinois, New York.
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New York City has one of the most segregated school systems in the country, and there can be no more excuses to avoid focusing on integration.
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Fraternities and sororities are the most segregated places on campus, partly because Cornell emboldens students to recruit members without systems to prevent segregation and social bias.
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Since Sunday morning remains America's most segregated hour, experts separate "historically black Protestant" churches into their own group, and then divide the white churches into various segments.
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But the country's most segregated schools are in the North: States like New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California have systems that are heavily separated by race.
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The inequity built into the Lyric Theatre's very architecture is a painful reminder of the city's ugly past as one of the most segregated places in America.
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In the least segregated cities, all-white communities were exposed to 38 decibels of nighttime noise on average, compared to 42.5 decibels in the most segregated cities.
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These 11 middle schools educate only about 1% of the public students in New York City's public school system, which is one of the country's most segregated.
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In the last couple of decades, there had been signs, however modest, that eleven o'clock on Sunday morning might cease to be the most segregated hour in America.
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For all its kaleidoscopic diversity, New York City has one of the most segregated school systems in the country, with divisions created and reinforced by decades of policy decisions.
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Their protests were quickly plastered all over the news, adding yet another layer of racial tension to the effort to fix the most segregated school system in the country.
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Again: A white voter in the least-segregated metropolitan area was 10 percentage points more likely to vote for Obama than a white voter in the most-segregated area.
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Today, Mr. Tractenberg said, New Jersey has one of the strongest laws against segregation, but at the same time has some of the most segregated schools in the country.
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It was not for nothing, after all, that Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous statement that the most segregated hour in America was 11:00 on a Sunday morning.
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New York has the most segregated school system in the country, while Washington has a higher level of income inequality than any other state, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
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But tensions have been percolating for decades here in one of America's most segregated cities, where black men are incarcerated or unemployed at some of the highest rates in the nation.
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In 2014, the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, released a report showing that New York City public schools are among the most segregated in the country.
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Officials at the center know that despite its liberal reputation, New York City is the third-most segregated city in the United States, according to an analysis of 2010 census data.
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But for all the progress that the Dallas police have made, this remains one of the most segregated big cities in the country, with yawning racial gaps in housing, schools and employment.
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While the commission has created a free, comprehensive online textbook to support schools' efforts, Dr. Harris said challenges remain in a state whose schools are among the most segregated in the nation.
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When I was on the Ferguson Commission, one of the things that I learned through our research is that St. Louis is about the fifth-most segregated city of its size in America.
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The study found that black patients who lived in the most segregated neighborhoods were 65 percent less likely to receive non–small cell lung cancer surgery than people in the least segregated areas.
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Martin Luther King Jr. observed that Sunday morning was the most segregated hour in America, but today one in five churchgoers worship in a congregation where no single ethnic or racial group predominates.
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New York's schools have become increasingly divided along racial lines over the last two decades, and the city is currently home to one of the most segregated urban public school systems in America.
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Squeaking sneakers, squalling kids, and a lot of people who would not otherwise be in the same building—this is what de facto integration sounds like in the third most-segregated city in America.
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Milwaukee, she notes, is the most segregated city in America, and is the city with the most black students in a state that has the largest black-white student achievement gap in the country.
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Milwaukee was ranked as the most segregated city in America by the Brookings Institution last year, and in the neighborhood where the rioting took place more than 30 percent of people live in poverty.
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The three-year probe strongly indicates that house hunting in one of the nation's most segregated suburbs poses substantial risks of discrimination, with black buyers chancing disadvantages almost half the time they enlist brokers.
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You wrote this amazing story for the magazine last year about deciding what school to send your own daughter to in New York City, which is the most segregated school system in the country.
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That Chicago is one of the most segregated cities in the United States is a fact that is treated by too many here as a footnote or a quirky characteristic, like deep-dish pizza.
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Blacks in the second-most segregated neighborhoods were 63 percent less likely to get that surgery, according to the study, published in Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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Henson was racially profiled outside a jewelry store a little over a year ago, and Bucks President Peter Feigin called Milwaukee "the most segregated, racist place I've ever experienced in my life" back in September.
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The shows are the first in SPACES' new gallery and a welcome contribution to the cultural scene in one of the most segregated cities in the country, where racism is not dealt with nearly enough.
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In Chicago, one of the most segregated cities in the country, an "expanded sanctuary" campaign has brought together black people and Latino immigrants to demand an end to punitive practices like the city's gang database.
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The struggle continues to this day: St. Louis is one of the country's most segregated cities, according to a 2017 study, and black residents live at a poverty rate over three times higher than whites.
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Melody Moulton, a senior at Bronx High School of Science who belongs to the educational activist group Teens Take Charge, says New York City has the most segregated public high school system in the country.
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She grew up in Las Vegas — the "most segregated town west of Mississippi" — and because the city is under a federal desegregation order, she was able to be bused to a magnet school as a kid.
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The city of 3.74 million people – often named one of the world's top tourist destinations for its spectacular beaches, scenery, shopping and dining - is the sixth most segregated area in South Africa, according to government data.
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With about 21990,22005 residents, Baltimore remains one of the most segregated cities in the country -- a fact that impacts, in part, how the police department's 20133,22013 sworn officers do their jobs, according to the DOJ report.
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Compared to black patients living in the least segregated areas, residents of the most segregated communities were at least 43 percent less likely to receive surgery for non-small cell lung cancer, the most common form.
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"When Senator Harris was the attorney general for eight years in the state of California, there were two of the most segregated school districts in the country, in Los Angeles and in San Francisco," he said.
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By 2005, Jefferson County was divided into 12 distinct and vastly disparate school systems, many of them either heavily black or heavily white, making the school-district boundaries there among the most segregated in the nation.
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Hobbling on canes, hoisting backpacks and bike helmets, clad in hoodies, kente cloth and down vests, they represented a convergence of races, ages and political beliefs that is unusual in one of the nation's most segregated metropolitan areas.
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Despite having one of the country's most diverse populations, New York City is notorious for having some of the most segregated schools in the country, according to a 2014 study from the University of California's Civil Rights project.
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Notebook When the magazine published my article on how my husband and I navigated selecting a school for our daughter in New York City — one of the most segregated school systems in the country — it certainly touched a nerve.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. observed that 11 o'clock on a Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in America, he was acknowledging the special power that ritual and community have to stoke or weaken both love and hatred.
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But blacks who lived in the most segregated areas with high levels of economic deprivation were 31 percent more likely to die than other blacks with lung cancer living in areas that were the least segregated and least economically deprived.
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And it's really hurting people the most in the most impoverished areas like the inner-city of Milwaukee which —because we're one of the most segregated [cities] in the country—it's a largely African-American community that's completely getting ignored.
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Second, at a time when Roanoke remains a city that "demographers still consider among the most segregated in the South" and racial tensions have been aroused throughout the nation, she means to provide an eerily resonant vision of the past.
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In the 2008 election, Enos found that with a black Democratic nominee, white voters in the most-segregated counties were between five and six percentage points less likely to vote for Obama than white voters in the least-segregated counties.
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Also, the strategies parents implemented, which included setting new enrollment rules and eliminating using academic screens to sort students for admission, could compel City Hall to take more forceful action to integrate one of the nation's most segregated school systems.
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As New York City reckons with the fact that its schools are among the most segregated in the nation, a swath of Brooklyn synonymous with fiercely progressive politics is about to test how effective a local integration effort can be.
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"There are opportunities that didn't exist before to create more integrated schools," said Pedro Noguera, an education professor at U.C.L.A., where a 211 report finding that New York State has the most segregated public schools in the nation helped galvanize the issue.
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Now Mr. Hinojosa is the superintendent, and the Dallas school system, one of the country's most segregated urban districts, has become a national leader in trying to figure out how to encourage students of all backgrounds to willingly go to school together.
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"The three-year probe strongly indicates that house hunting in one of the nation's most segregated suburbs poses substantial risks of discrimination, with black buyers chancing disadvantages almost half the time they enlist brokers," the reporters Ann Choi, Keith Herbert, and Olivia Winslow wrote.
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"New York is seen as a politically liberal bastion, and in the last year in particular, the fact that New York schools are some of the most segregated in the country has complicated New York's vision of itself as this beacon," Ms. Shapiro said.
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The real question is a bigger one, one that applies to other cities, too: Can the person who becomes the next mayor of one of the most segregated cities in the country actually talk about this reality — actually campaign on ending segregation — and win?
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In Mr. Enos's earlier work, he found that white voters in the most segregated counties nationally were five to six percentage points less likely to vote for Barack Obama in 2008 than white voters in the least segregated places, with a similar effect within states.
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Milwaukee is one of the United States' most segregated cities, where black men are incarcerated or unemployed at some of the highest rates in the country, and where the difference in poverty between black and white residents is about one and a half times the national average.
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Her debut EP 2016's Divine Love covered similar emotional and sonic territory as her peers like Jamila Woods' Heavn and Saba's Bucket List Project efforts that had a warmth radiating throughout that dealt with childhood, self-empowerment, and being black in one of the country's most segregated cities.
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How Detroit navigates the various dangers of regeneration and gentrification seems a particularly poignant question given that this year is the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Detroit race riots that exposed the deep tensions ingrained within a city that remains one of the most segregated in the country.
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The report also found that California's Latino students attend some of the country's most segregated schools, lack access to early childhood education, are often pushed away from college-prep coursework in high school and are more likely to be required to take remedial classes in colleges and universities.
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It is one of the most segregated cities in the US, and has been deemed the second-worst city for black Americans, according to the financial news site 24/20 Wall St. Last year, there were more murders per capita than in Chicago—84 percent of the victims were black.
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"The three-year probe strongly indicates that house hunting in one of the nation's most segregated suburbs poses substantial risks of discrimination, with black buyers chancing disadvantages almost half the time they enlist brokers," the reporters Ann Choi, Keith Herbert, and Olivia Winslow wrote in the project, which was edited by Arthur Browne.
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If Mr. Carranza lives up to his vow to take on segregation, he will go up against powerful forces that have kept alive the historic paradox of New York City education: In one of the nation's most diverse and politically progressive cities, the schools are among the most segregated in the country.
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But before we buy into the idea that school integration is a settled issue entirely we also need to confront this uncomfortable fact: by some measures we have lost ground in recent decades in the effort to desegregate our public schools, with eight of the top ten states with the most segregated schools outside of the South.
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The winning stories showcased a wide range of reporting and storytelling, at home and abroad: • In the Public Interest category, "Worlds Apart," by our staff writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, tells the story of Hannah-Jones's own process of finding a school for her daughter in New York City, among the most segregated public school systems in the country.
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