When states choose to deny education and economic opportunity to Black and brown communities, the downstream results have repeatedly included concentrated poverty, desperation and violence.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we learn about a New Orleans trial where three people are accused of staging multiple car accidents. We also learn about a new grant to teach compassion in medical ...

Dorothy Prevost was the mother of the late Tessie Prevost, one of the New Orleans Four, the brave 6-year-old girls who ...

The University of Texas System has adopted a new rule that aims to let students graduate without studying “unnecessary controversial subjects.” ...

A federal judge has found the St. James Parish School System remains segregated in student assignment just over 60 years ...

The exhibit focuses on the Black struggle for civil rights in Los Angeles through the work of Los Angeles-based photographers during that time.

Award-winning historian Arnoldo De León uncovers the untold story of a rural Texas community’s pivotal role in the ...

The history: The bakery sits on Central Avenue, the focal point of Black Los Angeles between the 1930s and 1960s. As segregation laws were struck down, Black people in LA began to move elsewhere and ...

The history: The bakery sits on Central Avenue, the focal point of Black Los Angeles between the 1930s and 1960s. As segregation laws were struck down, Black people in LA began to move elsewhere and ...

In the early 1900s, thousands of Rosenwald Schools were constructed across the South to provide education for Black children during segregation. One of them included Tensas Rosenwald High School.

He was all at once an icon for African Americans, a historical figure linked to Martin Luther King Jr., and a former US presidential candidate. The African American pastor Jesse Jackson has died at ...

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