Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, who defied bus segregation in Montgomery nine months before Rosa Parks, has died at 86 ...

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An “All Are Welcome” yard sign next to a yard sign opposing zoning liberalization in Austin, the irony apparently lost on the homeowner. (Photo by M. Nolan Gray) This is your first of three free ...

While several progressive presidential candidates have focused on the important question of housing affordability, they have paid less attention to the equally important challenge posed by persistent ...

This language is part of a racially restricted convenant placed on deeds for houses in the Kenwick area when it was first developed in 1909. Lexington The two of us began reading and learning about ...

Nearly 50 years ago, after a string of race-related riots in cities across America, President Lyndon B. Johnson commissioned a panel of civic leaders to investigate the underlying causes of racial ...

Nearly 1,000 school district boundaries separate communities where students are significantly more white and wealthy from communities where students are significantly more black and Latino and poor, a ...

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