When Lexie Webster integrated an Indianapolis neighborhood in 1963, fences went up. She spent her 96 years breaking down ...

The Color of Law is a call to action for a new constitutional movement to own up to the long history of official discrimination throughout the country—a history that persisted long after slavery, and ...

Rosemary Pope, a longtime community leader in southeastern San Diego, was born in 1945 and raised in Macon, Ga., when public ...

Two educators in Pittsfield have been indicted on criminal charges for the death of a 12-year-old girl after authorities said she drowned under their supervision during a program last summer.

But that changed when a ‘mixed’ couple was convicted of violating the Black Code/Jim Crow laws in Virginia on January 6, 1959. On that day, a bigoted judicial representative of the (in)justice system ...

Policing becomes war. When you see the words “Jim Crow,” your mind may jump to photos of racially segregated water fountains. But Jim Crow was far more than that.

Brown said Law had them trained by using role play. What to say and to stay on script.“We sang songs, and one of the songs that we sang was 'Wade in the Water.' God's going to trouble the water,” ...