Quincy Jones conducts an orchestra in Rome in May 2004. Frank Micelotta/Getty Images
by Philip Ewell, Hunter College
Quincy Jones, who died on Nov. 3, 2024, at...
Oak Park, Montgomery’s first park, was white-only until the mid-1960s. Binita Mahato, CC BY-ND
by Binita Mahato, Auburn University
Montgomery, Alabama, touts itself as the birthplace...
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by Nemata Blyden, University of Virginia
There’s a long history of African Americans settling in Ghana or keeping in close contact with the...
The ranks of Black teachers have been decimated since public schools were ordered desegregated in 1954. LWA via Getty Images
by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz, University of...
Lester Maddox is sworn in as governor of Georgia on Jan. 11, 1967. Bettmann/Getty Images
by David Cason, University of North Dakota
In January 1967, after...
President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Congressman James E. Clyburn. (Photo: DreamInColor Photo / NNPA)
by Stacy M. Brown and Ashleigh Fields, The Washington...
by Shirley J. Lim, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
The U.S. Mint is issuing four years of quarters featuring the likenesses...
How school attendance zones are drawn can affect segregation.
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by Erica Frankenberg, Penn State
Brown vs. Board of Education, the pivotal Supreme Court...
