The instant the Nebraska territory became official, it also became legal to settle west of the Missouri River in what had been known as Indian Territory. With the desire to settle came the urge to ...

The Color of Law is a call to action for a new constitutional movement to own up to the long history of official discrimination throughout the country—a history that persisted long after slavery, and ...

A federal proposal that would ban states and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years could soon be signed into law, as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other lawmakers work to secure its ...

The subpoena was sent to Harvard President Alan Garber after the university failed to provide adequate documentation by a previous deadline of April 22.

“It was a segregated beach, but because of Jim Crow laws, they were segregated, like most of the South was segregated,” said Julie Pearce of the Tybee MLK. On Aug. 17, 1960, eleven students, most of ...

Jim Crow laws, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, made it perfectly legal to discriminate against a person based on the color of ...