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Four short years after the recognition of a holiday commemorating freedom, it feels like Black people are less free.

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...

States are now more involved in tracking student data, but with the extent of a federal role increasingly less clear, the ...

Jim Crow laws, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, made it perfectly legal to discriminate against a person based on the color of their skin. Into the 1960s, a Black or Latino ...