April 16 (UPI) --Social scientists have traditionally viewed homophily and network-based job recruitment as major drivers of segregation, but new research suggests a previously overlooked phenomenon ...

Objective. Prior research assessing the association between structured inequality and homicides has produced inconsistent findings, particularly in regard to establishing an association between ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

According to the newest right-wing narrative, COVID restrictions are forms of segregation targeting anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers and anti-fact conservatives. There’s nothing wrong with that. I don’t ...

In 1968, the United States launched Apollo 8, the first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon and return safely. In that same year but with much less publicity, Tacoma Public Schools launched the nation ...

Racial inequality in the US is perpetuated in part by continued neighborhood segregation. Historically, people of color have been more likely to live in high-poverty neighborhoods, with limited access ...

Note: Based on the reader response to this article, Denvir penned a follow-up, “Five myths about the 10 most segregated metro areas.” You can find that piece here. Decades after the end of Jim Crow, ...

In 2016 a segregation law is affecting the education of a 9-year-old Missouri boy. Edmund Lee is an African-American, honors student at Gateway Science Academy, a charter school in south St. Louis.

Researchers have made a surprising new discovery in the structure of the centromere, a structure that is involved in ensuring that chromosomes are segregated properly when a cell divides. Mistakes in ...