This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court. The ...

This fall's incoming class was the first admitted under a U.S. Supreme Court decision restricting the consideration of race ...

Despite Brown v. Board of Education and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the U.S. has implemented policies that further segregate ...

Wright Thompson travels back to his native Mississippi to examine the place where Emmett Till was murdered for his new book ...

The true history of the lynching that begat the Civil Rights Movement began with the Mississippi gubernatorial election that was all about preserving segregation.

The true history of the lynching that begat the Civil Rights Movement began with the Mississippi gubernatorial election that was all about preserving segregation.

The share of newly admitted Black students dropped off significantly at the most selective schools, according to the ...

There was a slight decline in the numbers of Black students in Harvard University's freshman class, which follows a Supreme Court ruling which struck down affirmative action in higher education. The ...

The complaint follows years of troubling data showing stark disparities between Black and white students’ reading scores. But ...

A lawsuit filed by the ACLU alleges DeSoto's current district map violates Black voters' rights. Here's what we know.