A coalition of New Jersey racial justice activists is looking to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to intervene in what it says has been intolerable inaction by the state around school segregation.

ATLANTA — An Atlanta Civil Rights pioneer, one of three women who sued the Georgia State College of Business in 1956 to end segregation at the school, is turning 92. Myra Payne Elliott said she ...

Claudette Colvin, whose act of defiance against segregation nine months before Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, died Tuesday in Texas, according to the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation ...

The virtual event is free. In honor of Black History Month, the National Civil Rights Museum is sitting down with award-winning historian Crystal R. Sanders to host a virtual book talk on her book, A ...

Coming at a time when any discussion of integration seems like a quaint relic from the past, the Manhattan Institute's recently released report, The End of the Segregated Century, seemed like welcome ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how we can advance opportunity in education. Apr 25, 2025, 11:19am EDT Apr 28, 2025, 02:19pm EDT In 1964, following ...

Civil Rights pioneer Claudette Colvin died at the age of 86, her family and foundation confirmed Tuesday afternoon. “To us, she was more than a historical figure. She was the heart of our family, wise ...

USA TODAY’s “Seven Days of 1961” explores how sustained acts of resistance can bring about sweeping change. Throughout 1961, activists risked their lives to fight for voting rights and the integration ...

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer whose refusal to obey segregation laws on a Montgomery bus helped lay the groundwork for the modern Civil Rights Movement, died at the age of 86 on January 13, ...

For the entire month of February, NBC will showcase essays about Black Americans who pioneered change in United States history during the Civil Rights Movement that led to nationwide desegregation.

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