L. Clifford Davis, a civil rights lawyer who led efforts to desegregate high schools in Texas, sometimes in the face of mob violence, hostility from state...
THE TROUBLE OF COLOR: An American Family Memoir, by Martha S. Jones When Martha S. Jones was a student at SUNY New Paltz, she took a...
Late last fall at the Hugo Newman School in Harlem, two social studies teachers handed out pages of hip-hop lyrics to their seventh graders, and then...
The speech by Mayor Eric Adams of New York City, in the closing week of Black History Month, seemed to be hitting all the right historical...
Over the last few months, University of California officials have boasted that they have admitted the most racially diverse class ever to their sprawling system. They...
An Education Department employee was attending a funeral this week when she got the call: She was being placed on administrative leave because she works on...
On Monday, the Washington police union was decrying President Trump’s use of pardons when he let off rioters who attacked more than 150 officers on Jan....
President Trump had barely reacquainted himself with the Oval Office after his second inauguration when he began shredding the D.E.I. initiatives of the Biden administration, fulfilling...
Drawing extensively on Willie Lee Rose’s “Rehearsal for Reconstruction,” an influential chronicle of the Union’s early and mixed efforts to assist freed Black Americans, Parten argues...
President Biden will spend his final full day as president in Charleston, S.C., where five years ago he revived his flailing campaign and secured South Carolina’s...
