Richard Rothstein is a Senior Fellow at the Othering & Belonging Institute, a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute where he works on policy issues regarding education and race, and a senior fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He is also the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America. Rothstein was a senior fellow at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at Berkeley’s law school, until that institute closed at the end of 2015.
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August 18, 2017: How Does Segregation Affect Your Health? It Has A Huge & Surprising Impact (Bustle)
July 24, 2017: State-Enforced Segregation and the Color of Justice (The American Prospect)
June 20, 2017: A Powerful, Disturbing History of Residential Segregation in America (The New York Times)
May 30, 2017: The Racial Segregation of American Cities Was Anything But Accidental (Smithsonian Magazine)
May 18, 2017: Interview: Richard Rothstein on his important, new book ‘The Color of Law’ (The Washington Post)
May 17, 2017: 'The Color Of Law' Details How U.S. Housing Policies Created Segregation (NPR)
May 5, 2017: Discrimination Is Not De Facto (Slate)
Apr. 15, 2016: How Princeton’s trustees ducked the most important issue raised by student protesters (The Washington Post)
Apr. 14, 2016: On renaming the Woodrow Wilson School: The standards of his time, and ours (Economic Policy Institute)