On the 50th anniversary of the federal court decision to integrate Boston schools, a group of 20 people stood on the red brick walkway in front of the Massachusetts State House at one of the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trump and his allies argue that the need for DEI has long passed. In their assessments, desegregation and the passage of time have ...

Desegregation efforts in the Tucson Unified School District started with a lawsuit filed 38 years ago. In 1974, two families filed separate lawsuits against the district to address disparities in the ...

Alana Laforest, a rising junior at Boston Latin Academy, has taken U.S. history classes and was among the first students in the city to take an Advanced Placement African American studies class this ...

1957: National Guard troops form a line in a street to enforce desegregation at Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. Credit - Paul Slade—Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Trump and his allies argue ...

This map contains some images and descriptions of violence. Discretion is advised. Massachusetts was the first state in the nation to outlaw segregation in public schools. Yet for years, the Boston ...

Roots of change: Lucile Bluford's long crusade -- "This lone negro girl": Ada Lois Sipuel, desegregation champion -- Girls on the front line: grassroots challenges in the late 1940s -- Laying the ...

Shortly before Michael Gengler graduated from Gainesville High School in 1962, he asked the student body if they were in favor of desegregation. With 38% responding “yes” and 62% responding “no,” he ...

It was 70 years ago this week that San Antonio’s first school district announced it would integrate its schools in the upcoming academic year. On Aug. 28, 1955, Thomas Portwood, superintendent of San ...

ENGLAND, Ark. — More than five decades after being placed under federal desegregation orders, the England School District updated the community Tuesday night on its efforts to reach unitary status and ...