Maryland must take a meaningful step toward justice by creating a commission to study reparations, writes Del. Aletheia ...

This article appears in the April 2025 print edition with the headline “Was Integration the Wrong Goal?” ...

What those patriotic Americans showed us is that ours is a government of the people where everyday Americans can stand up and ...

North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters. Rep.

He has nine and ninety ewes, and I have (but) one: Yet he says, ‘commit her to my care,’ and is (moreover) harsh to me […] ...

Once again in our long and noble struggle, Martin Luther King’s dictum “The Urgency of Now!” is upon us. This reckoning with ...

I urge the city of Roanoke to reconsider discussions of demolishing the historic Caretaker’s House on the grounds of the ...

The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum has a special exhibit called “A Better Life for Their Children.” Through photos, ...

Photographer Andrew Feiler documented the last remaining Rosenwald Schools built to educate Black children during segregation ...

The Supreme Court’s most enduring ruling on race is not 1954’s Brown vs. Board of Education but a 1974 decision, Milliken v.

Due to centuries of slavery and Jim Crow segregation in the South, the Athens economy remains deeply unequal with persistent ...

The right to be served hasn't always been a right for all Americans. Sixty-four years ago, a teacher and 70 others protested ...