12.27.2018 - By WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Editor's note : This piece was originally published on April 25, 2018. While Milwaukee is often cited as the most segregated metropolitan area in the U.S., it’s hardly unusual. In most American cities, people of different races live in different neighborhoods and there’s a general pattern: neighborhoods near the center of a city are home to African-Americans and people of color, while the surrounding suburbs are majority white. But why? " The reality is that residential segregation in every