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Part I. Ancestries : Seventy centuries of city-splitting : Before race mattered ; The long shadow of the Ziggurat ; Segregating strangers ; Scapegoat ghettos ; Quarters for classes, crafts, clans, ...

The thievery, the homicide and/or the decimation of all things Black continue as one of the saddest and longest chapters of ...

Montgomery, Ala., touts itself as the birthplace of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. But although Montgomery now embraces its history of bus boycotts and protest marches, it remains one of the most ...

As anti-trans legislation has ramped up, historian Jules Gill-Peterson turns the lens to the past in her book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny.... The history of trans misogyny is the history of ...

On a chilly Friday in February, students of La Porte ISD’s Academy of Viola DeWalt learned about the history behind their school’s namesake. DeWalt was the first Black teacher in La Porte ISD, and ...

Anisa Khalifa: It's been more than 70 years since the landmark court case Brown versus Board of Education fundamentally changed the American classroom. Abolishing segregation in public schools sent ...

CHICAGO (AP) — As a child, Linda Davis and her mother broke clay pots over the gravesites of their ancestors, allowing the flowers in them to take root. When she returned to Brooklyn Cemetery in ...

California’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing law says local housing policy must include meaningful actions to replace “segregated living patterns with truly integrated and balanced living ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The Coming Street Fire Station in Charleston serves as a physical reminder of the contributions and accomplishments of the Black community in Charleston. With its extensive ...

ATHENS, Texas (KLTV) - It is the end of a new beginning for a school that opened in the city of Athens in 1955, but its history is not being erased. The R.C. Fisher school in Athens will soon be ...