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A powerful new book by the law professor Michelle Adams recounts the failed effort to integrate Detroit’s schools and the case’s relevance today.
In 1961, he and 12 other civil rights activists were nearly killed for trying to integrate interstate bus terminals across the South.
He began performing at 4 alongside his father, the celebrated singer and guitarist Josh White, and later carved out his own career.
Mr. Carter witnessed a shift from what had been a solidly Democratic South to one that Republicans, supported by white voters and particularly evangelicals, came to...
For nearly eight decades, the warm glow of a handcrafted red-and-white neon sign beckoned passers-by outside the White Horse Tavern in Greenwich Village. Dylan Thomas, Jack...
This visually inventive adaptation of a Colson Whitehead novel follows two boys at an abusive school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
Flash demonstrations intended to spread fear and anxiety are happening almost weekly, say experts who track the incidents.
I was still processing the election last week when I got to see a new production by Encores! of the musical “Ragtime.” It was sublime. The...
The Republicans of Forsyth County, Ga., deep in Trump country, have a peculiar problem: More and more of their white neighbors are voting for Democrats. Forsyth...
Federal officials have celebrated a striking drop in drug overdoses across the country. But state-level data shows that Black people are suffering significantly worse outcomes than...
