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

The concept of Route 66 as a symbol of freedom didn't ring true for everyone in America. A new exhibit will share African ...

District leaders do not want to lift a nearly 60-year-old desegregation order for the Georgetown County School District. Here ...

Karolyn Lee Gholston, Keyona Willis, Destiny Coleman and DeMeeshia Marshall perform in Coleman's 'The Journey: Civil Rights' in 2023. Schoolchildren of color in America have walked a long and arduous ...

Some transit advocates are wary of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to subsidize bus fares and argue the money would be better spent on a major subway expansion. A map of the New York City subway system ...

Voices from a painful but not-so-distant past echo from a documentary that's part of an exhibition in Cleveland Public Library's Brett Hall in downtown Cleveland. The family of Booker T. Eddy talks ...

FILE - A school bus is seen behind a fence with barbed wire outside Ferriday High School in Ferriday, La., May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) (Gerald ...

Excerpts from The News Journal archives Nov. 16-22 include Supreme Court ruling on Delaware school desegregation in 1975. Kent County town drops lawsuit blocking a business from opening in 2000.

The Delaware Historical Society’s (DHS) “Trail to Desegregation” bus tours are drawing sustained community interest and renewed attention to Delaware’s role in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ...

In 1975, Jefferson County Public Schools first implemented forced busing under a court order to desegregate schools, which also required the previously separate Louisville and Jefferson County systems ...