A staggering 81% of metropolitan regions across the nation have become more racially segregated since the 1990s, according to findings from UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute. The Roots of ...

Stephen Menendian, the assistant director and director of research at UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute, has spent over 15 years studying structural racism. As he defines it, structural ...

If you ask Stephen Menendian why his research at UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute is important, he won’t hesitate. “It matters to me because society has only begun to grapple with the ...

A statewide study on residential land being zoned solely for single family units was released by the Othering & Belonging Institute, or OBI, at UC Berkeley on May 22. Titled “Single-Family Zoning in ...

Despite a suite of well-intended policies aimed at improving education, health and economic outcomes for disadvantaged groups, California’s racial inequalities aren’t getting smaller. Often, they’re ...

Most folks in the San Francisco Bay Area are proud of the ethnic diversity and outwardly like to value it. But the true history of the Bay Area reveals the US disease of segregation is alive and well ...