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 ...

“The barn… is long and narrow with sliding doors in the middle,” writes Wright Thompson in ‘The Barn: The Secret History of a ...

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

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 ...

A group of gun owners and Second Amendment supporters, who dubbed themselves The Civil Rights Coalition, are “very confident” ...

Hicks, Hammond’s first Black teacher and namesake of an elementary school, died on Tuesday, her family said. She was 87.

The unveiling of a marker at Bryant Elementary School will honor the 60th anniversary of the township's historic voluntary integration of its school district, the first in the nation. The ...

The new UDARI Faculty Fellows are Mellissa Gordon, associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family ...

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.