Segregation was (and still is) the practice of requiring separate services, education and housing for people of color. Segregation was actually made a law in the 18 th and 19 th century because people ...
A two-pronged attack is necessary to break down structural barriers that are preventing low-income families from finding affordable housing. A new building sits between two older buildings in the East ...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Alabama and South Carolina are subjecting HIV-positive prisoners to "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" by segregating them in violation of international law, two leading U.S.
In 1951, a Black teenager led a walkout of her segregated Virginia high school. On Tuesday, her statue replaced that of a Confederate general in the U.S. Capitol. Barbara Rose Johns was 16 when she ...
The untold story of Black Americans in pursuit of higher education in the North when Southern graduate schools were white-only. The academics – teachers, administrators, lawyers, doctors, and other ...
Nearly a third of all public school students attend a school in the suburbs surrounding the nation’s 25 largest cities. And it’s increasingly likely the school they’re attending is effectively ...
Is it the Jim Crow era again? Because segregation may be coming back to the United States. In a public memo issued by the General Services Administration, the federal government no longer prohibits ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A celebration was held Friday in Chicago to honor the 75th anniversary of the end of racial segregation in the U.S. Military. Several Illinois officials joined representatives from ...
Despite the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court nearly a half-century ago that school segregation was unconstitutional, the nation’s schools became increasingly more separated by race in the 1990s, ...
Sen. Tom Harkin (D) - Iowa. WASHINGTON -- The Senate has unanimously passed a resolution apologizing for slavery and racial segregation in the U.S. and sent the measure to the House. Democrat Tom ...
* Alabama, S. Carolina said to violate international law * Only two U.S. states that isolate HIV-positive prisoners MIAMI, April 14 (Reuters) - Alabama and South Carolina are subjecting HIV-positive ...