I was reading and article exploring the legacy of the Voting Rights Act that got me to thinking about segregation and apartheid. I know that apartheid was a national-level political system of ...

Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was only 7 when the Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education case that separate but equal was unconstitutional. Before that, though, Green rode the bus from Fort ...

African American men wearing tuxedos carry a coffin and a "Here Lies Jim Crow" sign down the middle of a street as a demonstration against "Jim Crow" segregation laws.CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images ...

In the late 1940s Black community members were relegated to substandard housing in certain parts of Louisville. Cheri Bryant Hamilton, longtime Chickasaw resident, former city council member and ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - There’s a lot of history at the baseball field at Bethune Junior Senior High School (now called Bethune Oak Park Elementary School) in Shreveport. The school’s all-Black 1965 ...

A much-anticipated court ruling that was issued Friday said New Jersey had failed to correct the problem of continuing racial segregation in its public schools, exacerbated by the practice of having ...