segregation

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The brain stops prioritizing these “expressways” and shifts back to segregation to lock in the pathways our brains use most.

From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026

Its written arguments state that the Act "does not mandate sex segregation", and "does not absolutely prohibit deviation from any norm".

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

It is not discrimination, but rather, continuing to address the persisting harms of segregation, in schools and in communities.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2026

The day celebrates the life and legacy of the Baptist minister, who played a key role in ending legal segregation in the U.S.

From Barron's • Jan. 19, 2026

Nothing in the opinion or in the subsequent legal strategy made clear that segregation had afforded elites a crucial means of exercising social control over poor and working-class whites as well as blacks.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander