Iowa’s Republican-dominated House Education Committee approved a controversial anti-trans bill Tuesday that includes troubling language reminiscent of the racist “separate but equal” legal doctrine.

From the Sweet trials of the 1920s to white flight and Malice Green, the city of Detroit has frequently found itself at the forefront in discussions of race relations in America. Though landmark ...

In 1892, a mixed-race shoemaker from New Orleans named Homer Plessy was arrested for riding in a "Whites-only" railcar. Four years later in Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his arrest ...

The Supreme Court of New Jersey has ruled in favor of gay marriage, sort of. By a vote of 4 to 3, the court says the state must afford gay couples all the “rights and benefits” that straight couples ...

Why the nation must revisit the separate but equal doctrine Atlanta, the city that birthed and raised Rev. King, is also the city I have called home for over 20 years. Although it is known for its ...

The opinion of the Massachusetts Supreme Court is clear: "The history of our nation has demonstrated that separate is seldom, if ever, equal. For no rational reason the marriage laws of the ...

Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legal doctrine of “separate but equal”. It was a ruling that enabled many states to enact racial segregation laws for ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. At the end of January, I organized and moderated a panel at Temple University’s School of Media and ...