Today, for many Americans, the word “ghetto” conjures images of run-down and crime-ridden African American segregated ...

Known as the Tougaloo Nine, the demonstrators staged a sit-in that helped the NAACP push for the desegregation of public ...

Part I. Ancestries : Seventy centuries of city-splitting : Before race mattered ; The long shadow of the Ziggurat ; Segregating strangers ; Scapegoat ghettos ; Quarters for classes, crafts, clans, ...

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Historians say that a major milestone in the history of school integration is often left out of the civil rights story ...

Montgomery, Ala., touts itself as the birthplace of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. But although Montgomery now embraces its history of bus boycotts and protest marches, it remains one of the most ...

California’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing law says local housing policy must include meaningful actions to replace “segregated living patterns with truly integrated and balanced living ...

As anti-trans legislation has ramped up, historian Jules Gill-Peterson turns the lens to the past in her book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny.... The history of trans misogyny is the history of ...

At 42, Tameka Bostick decided she wanted to learn how to swim. Bostick said she tried to sign her teenager up for lessons, too, but her daughter said she wanted her mother to learn to swim first. "'Ma ...

Josh Gibson died in January 1947, a little more than three months before Jackie Robinson broke professional baseball's so-called "color barrier." Despite never playing a single inning in the two ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The Coming Street Fire Station in Charleston serves as a physical reminder of the contributions and accomplishments of the Black community in Charleston. With its extensive ...