Richard Rothstein

Richard Rothstein is an American academic and author specializing in race, education, and housing segregation, serving as a Distinguished Fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.[1][2] He is best known for his 2017 book *The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America*, which documents government policies that enforced racial segregation in U.S. housing.[1][2] Previously, he was the national education columnist for the *New York Times* from 1999 to 2002 and has authored several books on education reform and achievement gaps.[3]