A 1976 court order to desegregate Milwaukee Public Schools led to initial progress that has since faded. Many Milwaukee schools remain racially segregated, with achievement gaps persisting between ...

Claudette Colvin, a woman whose efforts against segregation on Montgomery's city buses predates even the iconic Rosa Parks, has died at age 86. "It is with profound sadness that the Claudette Colvin ...

Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed months later when Rosa Parks made history with a similar stand. By Clay Risen ...

The chairperson for an education policy committee allegedly wrote “imagine the scores though if we had schools for them and some for us.” A state lawmaker with an influential role in education policy ...

Gilbert Gee and Annie Ro depict systemic racism as the hidden base of an iceberg 10 (see illustration in online appendix exhibit 1). 11 The iceberg’s visible part represents the overt racism that ...

The General Services Administration (GSA) lifted its requirement for the prohibition of segregated facilities in government contracts on February 15 to comply with an executive order signed by ...