On Galveston Island lies a story that could have been forgotten if not for the efforts of local historians. Two Black ...

A federal appeals court decided this week to allow Davina Ricketts, a former North Carolina high school student, to continue ...

A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across states in the Deep South: Alongside majority-Black public school ...

failed to protect the civil rights of black citizens. In the end, white segregation rested on open violence. At the turn of the century, lynchings occurred every week, and most of the victims ...

and activists fighting for de-segregation and civil rights, often at great risks to themselves. D. Gorton An image from a working-class area of Atlanta where white and black children played ...

First, I asked how, as a historian, she became interested in “segregation scholarships.” She shared, “Growing up in rural North Carolina, I noticed that many of the retired Black public ...

Charles Person was just 18 when he volunteered to join the Freedom Riders, who faced violent racism on their journey to integrate interstate travel.

After that, Belton notes, the Telegraph wrote racial segregation into its ticket policy, so that black people could only buy the cheapest tickets, to travel in the common cabin, while white people ...

Hard as it may be to believe, Carter won the majority of evangelical voters in 1976. Being a white evangelical Christian from ...

Childhood exposure to school segregation is associated with worse late-life cognitive outcomes among older Black adult ...

If you measure segregation in a way that accounts for this, instead of just measuring black students’ exposure to white students, you find that there’s no increase. This has generated some ...

This cross-sectional study of Black and white older individuals found that childhood exposure to school segregation was associated with late-life cognition among the Black population. Given the ...