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One hundred days after the death of Michael Brown Jr., the State of Missouri by executive order established a commission to conduct “a thorough, wide-ranging and unflinching study of the social and ...

After the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964 and 1968, many white Southerners were outraged. They believed that the federal government and the Republican Party had abandoned their values by ...

A ProPublica report found that segregation academies in the South highlight how the conservative push for “school choice” aims to resegregate schools. A Washington Post-Ipsos survey indicates that a ...

Equal access to housing is a civil right, but systemic racism within our housing institutions has long kept communities of color from accessing fair housing opportunities. The Fair Housing Act with ...

America’s democracy is under threat. President Donald Trump smashes alliances, upends norms and tramples the Constitution. So it’s normal to ask: What can one citizen do to help put America on a ...

Anisa Khalifa: It's been more than 70 years since the landmark court case Brown versus Board of Education fundamentally changed the American classroom. Abolishing segregation in public schools sent ...

Stanley Corngold, a Princeton scholar of German literature, was visiting Jack Greenberg, a Columbia law professor famous for his key role in arguing the Supreme Court’s landmark decision, Brown v.

America has long been subject to the restriction of people to specific spaces based on their race, a phenomenon also known as racial segregation. The nation holds a long history of witnessing African ...

MILWAUKEE — Their daughter was sick and they needed family around to help care for her, so JoAnne and Maanaan Sabir took an unexpected detour. They had spent years blowing past mileposts: earning ...

Musicians and athletes like Duke Ellington and Roy Campanella paved the way for the country’s eventual acceptance of Brown v. Board of Education. File photos This week’s 70th anniversary of the ...

In the heart of Kansas City stands a monument to triumph, resilience, and the entrepreneurial spirit of Black America. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum preserves not just baseball history, but a ...