Dr. Melba Pattillo Beals, a member of the Little Rock Nine who desegregated Central High School in 1957, transitioned from a ...

DCCC hosts a Black History Month lecture on Brown v. Board of Education and Thurgood Marshall’s legacy on Feb. 26.

Longtime Montclair resident Marion Thompson Wright was the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in history, but it ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Two award-winning special guests will highlight an event in May commemorating the 72nd anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Topeka Board of Education United States Supreme Court ...

In 1960, Dorothy Prevost’s daughter made history as one of four girls who integrated schools in New Orleans.

Race-neutral transportation and housing policies built an environment in which segregation was embedded in concrete and ...

Derek Francis, a longtime counselor who has worked in Minneapolis public schools, wants local children to know that the diversity they witness in their schools today results from a complex journey. “I ...

Reggie Williams and NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE When Black leaders proceeded from Selma to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marched beside the Rev.

Church has stood in Springfield, Missouri, for more than a century, but its congregation has molded the community well before ...

People fought for access to education, but too many have lost the drive for it. We must rekindle that desire. It's essential ...

A book by a University of Michigan law professor tackles the history around a Supreme Court case that limited the scope of ...

The State Board of Education has set its priorities for the upcoming legislative short session, approving a more than $1 billion set of requests for state lawmakers on a split 8-2 vote. The requests ...