Jackson townhouse community is under fire by some residents for limiting pool use based on gender due to religious beliefs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At age 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, months before Rosa Parks. She became one of four ...

Smith participated in sit-ins and boycotts challenging racial segregation and Jim Crow laws. In 1963, Smith was among the ...

My mother and father went to segregated schools, separated from Whites because they were Black. They told me, as a child, that they wanted better for me. They got their wish when I went to Stanford ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Atlanta Civil Rights pioneer, one of three women who sued the Georgia State College of Business in 1956 to end segregation at ...

A coalition of New Jersey racial justice activists is looking to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to intervene in what it says has been intolerable inaction by the state around school segregation.

WASHINGTON — When the Justice Department lifted a school desegregation order in Louisiana this week, officials called its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggested that others dating to ...

The virtual event is free. In honor of Black History Month, the National Civil Rights Museum is sitting down with award-winning historian Crystal R. Sanders to host a virtual book talk on her book, A ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how we can advance opportunity in education. Apr 25, 2025, 11:19am EDT Apr 28, 2025, 02:19pm EDT In 1964, following ...

Claudette Colvin, whose act of defiance against segregation nine months before Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, died Tuesday in Texas, according to the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation ...