Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope.

A battle over Louisiana's congressional map led to the racially and politically charged case. Could it impact the Voting ...

In April, the U.S. Department of Education used a landmark law intended, in part, to end racial discrimination to investigate Chicago Public Schools over a “Black Students Success Plan,” after a ...

A Pa. senator announced legislation to create an agency to enforce protections that the federal government can’t, or won’t.

When I think of Ed Sullivan, what flashes first to my mind is Feb. 9, 1964, as I sat watching with my parents on a large black-and-white TV – as we all did in those days – and he gave a wave to ...

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to propose in the coming days narrowing a key part of civil-rights era ...