Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No modern U.S. president before Donald Trump has explicitly called for the end of diversity initiatives and targeted schools that ...

As the school voucher debate unfolds this legislative session, both sides have attempted to pick up the mantle of the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement to make their case about subsidizing private ...

In a recent column, educator Sierra Bush Rester claims that school choice, whether in the form of private vouchers or public charter schools, is “rooted in segregationist policy.” Her own arguments, ...

Sixty-four years ago this month, the Louisiana Legislature passed a bill giving parents public money to pay for private school. Gov. Jimmie Davis signed it on Dec. 4, 1960, less than a month after ...

WASHINGTON — When the Justice Department lifted a school desegregation order in Louisiana this week, officials called its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggested that others dating to ...

Passover commemorates ancient Hebrew emancipation from the system of Egyptian slavery, a policy that exploited labor and segregated an entire people. This Jewish holy day reaffirms a story of triumph ...

Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style ...

Intense school segregation by race and class is worsening in California, a new study shows. (File photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is published ...

A cascade of crises is forcing America to confront the racism of its past and present—from overt acts of hate to subtler injustices that shape our society. Over 16 weeks, City Limits and Enterprise ...

Photographer Andrew Feiler stood in front of a crowd of over 200 attendees at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, beaming. “I can't believe how lucky I am,” he said. A curator grinning ear ...

Intense school segregation by race and class in the state is worsening. The proportion of intensely segregated schools in California — defined as those with more than 90% students of color — have ...