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 their skin. Into the 1960s, a Black or Latino ...

Juneteenth, Jim Crow and how the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons for Texas lawmakers trying to erase history from the classroom By Jeffrey L. Littlejohn , Sam ...

In 1901 and 1902, the white Democratic majority in Virginia held a constitutional convention to enshrine Jim Crow laws in the state constitution, including a poll tax, literacy tests and a ...

The delayed freedom of Texas slaves reveals much about the fragile nature of legal authority when confronted by entrenched ...

Courts have recognized a “private right of action” in the Voting Rights Act since the law’s inception. In 1966, a dispute ...

Neighborhood kids loved civil rights hero Medgar Evers. As he drove down the street, they called his name and begged him to play football. His daughter, Reena, was the weight on her father’s ankles ...

Claims that no progress on racial equity has been made in the eight decades since Opal Lee graduated from I.M. Terrell are ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s plan to give $400 million in state funds to historically underserved communities isn’t sitting well ...

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston announcing the enforcement of ...

“It is my duty to honor them and my grandmother, Johnnie Mae McKamey (married last name Hardin), who was an heir of most of ...