Watch a replay of yesterday's event on racial residential segregation

Image grab from the panel showing Stephen Menendian, john a powell, Margery Turner, Richard Rothstein, and interpreter Nicole S.

Several thousand of you tuned in to yesterday's live event, "The Roots of Structural Racism: Residential Segregation in the US," where we presented our national segregation project and spoke with housing researchers and legal experts from around the country about the need to work towards integration. It was clear from the public and media response to our project that there's enormous interest in this work and desire for change. At the bottom of this email we've included a long list of news reports covering this project, with more to come.

Many of you who were unable to attend yesterday's event asked us if there would be a recording. Here it is, along with a transcript.

You can jump to some highlights from the event using the following links:

Hear co-author Samir Gambhir give an overview of the main takeaways from the project at 6:42
Watch project lead Stephen Menendian demonstrate the interactive mapping tool at 11:26
Hear from panelists Richard Rothstein, john a. powell and Margery Turner on why segregation still matters at 24:09
See the final panel featuring Lisa Rice, Demetria McCain and Ajmel Quereshi describe strategies to bring us towards integration at 1:45:07

And be sure to bookmark our project's landing page, which includes the report, and links to the interactive map, appendix, segregation tables, city profiles, local histories, and other components grouped together in the navigation menu on the right-hand side of the page.

Important note regarding our interactive web map

Our team has built what we believe is the most powerful interactive mapping tool of segregation in the United States ever created. It shows you segregation levels of every region, city, and neighborhood across the country, and allows you to see change over time. But because of higher than anticipated web traffic the map was temporarily down for parts of Monday and Tuesday. It appears to be functioning normally now but there may be intermittent periods where it stops functioning. We're working quickly to resolve this issue.

We have been thrilled with the media response to our project. See below some links to the coverage we've received until now:

Sacramento ranks as a ‘highly segregated’ city, study finds. Why it’s worse than 30 years ago (Sacramento Bee) | June 23, 2021
Othering & Belonging Institute holds residential segregation seminar (Daily Californian) | June 23, 2021
Bay Area segregation is worsening, UC Berkeley study finds (San Francisco Chronicle) | June 22, 2021
Segregation Is Getting Worse in the US. The Bay Area Is No Exception (KQED) | June 22, 2021
Report: Oakland, Fremont among U.S. metro areas that have become more segregated (KTVU Fox 2) | June 22, 2021
Study: US more segregated now than 1970, including Bay Area (KCBS) | June 22, 2021
Four-Fifths Of U.S. Metro Areas More Segregated In 2019 Than In 1990, While Detroit Is The Most Segregated City In Country (Forbes) | June 21, 2021
Most major metropolitan areas have become more racially segregated, study shows + Reporter Nicquel Terry Ellis on air (CNN) | June 21, 2021
Study Finds That Detroit is the Most Segregated City in the Country (The Root) | June 21, 2021
The U.S. Is Increasingly Diverse, So Why Is Segregation Getting Worse? (Time) | June 21, 2021
Bay Area is Becoming More Racially, Economically Segregated: UC Berkeley Study (NBC Bay Area) | June 21, 2021
The D.C. Region Has Become More Diverse — But Also More Segregated, Study Finds (DCist) | June 21, 2021
Segregation Has Grown Worse in Most Big Metros, Analysis Finds (Route Fifty) | June 21, 2021
Most big cities have become more racially segregated: study (New York Post) | June 21, 2021
How American racism is rooted in residential segregation (Berkeley News) | June 21, 2021
Bay Area has become more segregated over decades, report says (East Bay Times) | June 21, 2021
Detroit is the most segregated city in the U.S., new study finds (WXYZ Detroit) | June 21, 2021
Most segregated city in America is Detroit. How that impacts Detroiters (Detroit News) | June 21, 2021
Segregation is getting worse in most large US cities: report (Raw Story)

We are keen to hear your thoughts! If you have any feedback for us on our report, mapping tool, or any other component of this project please get in touch at belonging@berkeley.edu.

Thank you all for your support!