My mother and father went to segregated schools, separated from Whites because they were Black. They told me, as a child, that they wanted better for me. They got their wish when I went to Stanford ...

It’s never too late to do better. Lexington is in the middle of some important conversations about its shameful history of housing segregation. That it happened in nearly every city in America makes ...

Barbara Rose Johns was 16 when she led a walkout at her high school, credited with helping end school segregation. Her statue replaces Robert E. Lee's, which was removed in 2020.

A new ad campaign launched by a government watchdog is targeting Democrats' opposition to increased school choice as akin to segregation. According to Unleash Prosperity Now, the new ad, titled ...

As a teacher, I participated in efforts to racially integrate Champaign Unit 4 schools. I have since monitored so-called White flight, the counter-movement in which White parents who could afford ...

Almost sixty years ago, the United States of America became a representative democracy. Until 1965, if you count African Americans, this nation was a democracy for some, but not others. The Voting ...

Long-standing federal guidelines prevented federal contractors from operating segregated facilities, like restaurants or waiting rooms. A newly unearthed memo from the Trump administration calls to ...

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 ...

When Jeneva Clark was tasked with organizing the 2024 Southeastern Conference for the Mathematical Association of America at the University of Tennessee, she looked to the organization's history for ...

A newly unearthed memo from the Trump administration calls to mind the infamous words of the late segregationist and Alabama Gov. George Wallace, who said at his inauguration in 1963, “I draw the line ...