Seventy years after the Supreme Court acknowledged that “separate but equal” had no place in the United States, one of history’s most celebrated legal opinions is being used by conservative groups to ...

Seventy years ago Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. The decision rejected the “separate but equal” doctrine ...

Some of the nation’s most prominent Black political leaders and advocates celebrated the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education Friday by calling for more to be done to end present-day ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Friday marks 70 years since school integration became the law of the land, and a new study reveals North Carolina schools still have work to do. Julia Fairley, 76, was in third ...

OPINION: After 70 years, enough time has passed to learn the unwhitewashed history of the Supreme Court’s landmark desegregation case. Seventy years ago, on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Rose Stuckey Kirk Seventy ...

A Humanities Kansas grant will fund new research on the Madam C.J. Walker School in Merriam. The old school, which was the center of a desegregation lawsuit in the 1940s, now houses the Philadelphia ...

North Carolina schools remain segregated and often are more segregated now than they were just a few decades ago, according to two new studies that show similar trends across the nation. Friday marks ...

At the start of the 2008-09 school year, I drove past the University of Florida’s red-brick campus to the city’s economically disadvantaged eastside to film a documentary about the community’s ...

With the words "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," the Supreme Court reversed legalized segregation in the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Explore this ...

At just eight years old, Sylvia Mendez became a key figure in Mendez v. Westminster, a landmark school desegregation case that laid the groundwork for Brown v. Board of Education. Her family’s 1947 ...