A Merriam family and teacher fought segregation in schools, challenging inequality years before Brown v. Board.

This article appears in the April 2025 print edition with the headline “Was Integration the Wrong Goal?” ...

The Supreme Court’s most enduring ruling on race is not 1954’s Brown vs. Board of Education but a 1974 decision, Milliken v.

The nostalgia behind the slogan “Make America great again” has always provoked the obvious questions of just when America was ...

Republican lawmakers who want to take us back to a racist past should be ashamed of themselves and be replaced.

Students with disabilities should receive dignified educational and vocational preparation for work where they are paid for ...

A new memo from the Office of Personnel Management argues that contracts with federal unions cannot supersede an agency’s ...

"It is a significant action taken by the Trump administration. The impact, generally, I don't think will be significant," said Nichole Atallah.

It was here that I encountered segregated water fountains and bathrooms which were separate but definitely not equal. When I asked my grandfather “Why?” his reply: “They don’t want to use ...

The view, everyone agrees, is spectacular: Across the street from the White House, facing the Washington Monument from the ...

Our fear is that chaos created by the EOs will result in a broad retreat not just from illegal preferences and quotas, but ...