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If communities across America were to become more racially integrated, it would be an "economic game changer," boosting gross domestic product growth by an estimated 0.3 percentage points in the span ...

A half-century ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee, on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. To get to the site, which is now the National Civil Rights Museum, you can ...

It was 50 years ago today that the Supreme Court's unanimous decision in Brown v Board of Education banned segregation in public schools, saying that separate schools could not be equal. It was 20 ...

When the Trump administration announced in April that it was dismissing the Department of Justice’s decades-long effort to desegregate the Plaquemines Parish School District in Louisiana, the state’s ...

Schools in the U.S. remain deeply divided along racial, ethnic and economic lines, even as studies show that the K-12 public school population is becoming more diverse. More than a third of students ...

* Alabama, S. Carolina said to violate international law * Only two U.S. states that isolate HIV-positive prisoners MIAMI, April 14 (Reuters) - Alabama and South Carolina are subjecting HIV-positive ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Public schools in the United States are becoming more racially segregated and the trend is likely to accelerate because of a Supreme Court decision in June, according to report ...

Barbara Rose Johns was 16 when she led a walkout at her high school, credited with helping end school segregation. Her statue replaces Robert E. Lee's, which was removed in 2020.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Among the most lasting and indelible images of the civil rights movement were the nine black teenagers who had to be escorted by federal troops past an angry white mob and ...