1968— The United States Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing. The deci­sion came in a case known as Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. The court used as its precedent ...

A federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration’s efforts to block transgender and nonbinary people from having ...

With federal funding slashed, libraries and museums across the country have been forced to find new ways to tell their stories ...

Thursday will mark 160 years since Union forces landed in Galveston with news that enslaved Texans had been emancipated more ...

Some of the historical content in this story includes racial slurs and racist language. The group of Danville City Council members, all white and all men, gathered in the ...

Originally celebrated by newly freed Black communities in Texas with religious services, barbecues and symbolic traditions ...

In an important change, President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard to protect marchers. State troopers and sheriff’s deputies had terrorized marchers, including John Lewis, who was ...

With a season celebrating Dorothy Dandridge opening at BFI Southbank, her biographer talks about the trail-blazing Black Hollywood actress whom Whitney Houston once called ”our Marilyn Monroe”.

President Trump has called for expanded deportation operations in Los Angeles after "No King Day" protests over the weekend ...

Although President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is deporting people at a slower pace than President Joe Biden did last year, ICE, under the direction of Homeland Security ...

The National Center for Public Policy Research uses shareholder proposals to pressure corporate America to ditch diversity, ...

A new Gallup poll shows only 38 percent of Republicans now agree that “gay or lesbian relations” are morally acceptable.