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'Desegregation made a difference — but not enough of one'
The Week via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA woman explains desegregation to her daughter in 1954. '70 years after Brown, integrating US...
Civil rights icon Rev. James Lawson Jr., who trained activists in nonviolent protest, has died at...
KION 46 Salinas· 7 days agoJames Lawson Jr., a civil rights icon who trained activists in nonviolent protest, died Sunday,...
South Carolina quietly canceled AP African American Studies. We wanted to know why.
theGrio via AOL· 11 hours agoRecommended Stories When asked if they could recall a similar decision, only one of the high school...
IT'S A 'NATURAL': THE 25TH STATE
Arizona Daily Sun· 4 days agoOn June 15, 1836, Arkansas became the 25th state. The United States acquired the land from France ...
How Nashville's Southern Student Organizing Committee was inspired to broaden Civil Rights Movement
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 days agoHe was one of the leaders of the silent march in Memphis to honor King after he was assassinated. Lawson in his later ...
Nearly 10,000 expected to attend Saturday's Juneteenth Celebration in downtown Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem Journal· 5 days agoSaturday’s festival will be held from 1-8 p.m. in Biotech Place and Bailey Park. Juneteenth...
Easier jobs make Hurley, Geno better liked than legislators
The Day· 21 hours agoCelebrating Dan Hurley's decision this week to keep coaching the men's basketball team at the University of Connecticut, state House ...
Potential VP pick Sen. J.D. Vance once liked tweets harshly critical of Trump
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 days agoRepublican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, a leading candidate to be Donald Trump’s vice president, liked...
Civil rights lawyer William T. Coleman honored among the founding fathers
WHYY· 3 days agothe Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? A Philadelphia...
Report: Massachusetts is leaving behind 225K students in ‘substandard segregated schools’
Boston Herald· 6 days agoDecades after desegregation orders took root across the country, Massachusetts leaders have failed...