American Ghetto By Mario L. Small April 24, 2016. A Washington, D.C., neighborhood in 1997. Steve McCurry, Magnum Photos. I n their effort to communicate complex thoughts, social scientists have ...

In case you didn’t know it, what’s called a “recession” in White America is called a “depression” in Black America. During much of last year white unemployment held steady at around 8. ...

The linkage between Jews and “ghetto” began in the early 16th century. Here's how the word came to signify racial segregation in America.

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

Donald Trump on Thursday referred to inner cities for the first time on the campaign trail as “ghettos” as he promised as president to tackle the problems facing low-income African-Americans.

In Poland, the Nazis moved to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto. In a desperate last stand, the remaining Jewish inhabitants began a hopeless month-long battle against them.

Culinary companies like VeganHood and Ghetto Gastro are making it known that words specific to Black American culture are to be celebrated, not denigrated.

Art may not be the ghettos' most urgent need. ... Detroit’s International Afro-American Museum, organized by Dr. Charles H. Wright, a black gynecologist, is a trailer that tours schools.

The Warsaw Ghetto, bound by a 10-foot wall and barbed wire, was the largest — sealing 400,000 Jews inside its 1.3 square mile area by 1942, according to the United States Holocaust Museum.