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 ...

Trans women have become culturally associated with the violence they face, both in sympathy and stigma. The historian Jules Gill-Peterson looks to how that came to be in her book, A Short History of ...

Mayor Cantrell has launched a study to assess reopening Lincoln Beach. Mayor LaToya Cantrell is looking into re-opening Lincoln Beach, the long-shuttered African American beach in New Orleans East.

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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 ...

Segregation is a common tale in American cities — most practiced discrimination in housing loans and urban renewal — but at the same time, every town has its own unique narratives. After the Civil War ...

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 ...

"It was going to happen," said former city councilman Charley Fisher III. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Dr. Eva Doyle describes herself as one of the "regular Saturday shoppers" at the Tops supermarket on ...

Racial segregation in public schools and the controversial concept of "separate but equal" were unanimously declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court on this day in history, May 17, ...

On March 3, 1920, a group of African American businessmen gathered for a meeting in Atlanta, to talk about baseball. Just a month before, Andrew “Rube” Foster, the legendary pitcher and manager of the ...

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Joe Biden’s opposition to busing for school desegregation in the 1970s reveals how white liberalism played a central role in ...