school segregation

Efforts in early America to educate Black children offer us a template for addressing educational inequality today.

The story of Motley's legal career prior to Brown v. Board, and her crucial participation in it.

Service members were attacked, discredited, and shortchanged on GI benefits—with lasting implications.

Among the thousands of cases the Supreme Court has decided, only a handful of dissenting opinions stand out.

Uvalde's current protests against gun control mirror those of student protests in the early 1970s.

The right might be targeting a seminal Supreme Court case that protects educational fairness.

A journey through the African American landscape.

The 1954 Supreme Court ruling was hailed as a victory for desegregation. But protracted white resistance decimated the pipeline of Black principals and teachers.

Fifty years ago, a fame-seeker shot the polarizing politician five times, paralyzing him from the waist down.

Black Americans continue to fight for access to the public school systems their forebears created, against a history of white backlash and appropriation.

What prioritizing white happiness tells us about race and K-12 education.

College student essays from 1961 underscore why our current trajectory could be devastating.

After the U.S Supreme Court forced school integration in early 1970, white families fled to either racist Central Academy or new Mennonite schools.

As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought.

Historical perspective on school integration.

While they never intended for more than 45 million Americans to have this much debt, policymakers in the 1960s made fateful choices.

Banning such teaching isn’t colorblind; it would erase Black people from history and maintain White cultural dominance.

We do our children no favors if we only feed them a steady diet of fairy tales that sidestep life’s complexities.

Eighty years after a segregation wall rose in Detroit, America remains divided. That's not an accident.

The roots of “protecting children” in U.S. political rhetoric lie in efforts to defend white supremacy.