As the hunger for more farmland stretched west, so too did the demand for enslaved labor

This report on the history of the Ku Klux Klan, America’s first terrorist organization, was prepared by the Klanwatch Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Klanwatch was formed in 1981 to help

Kuklux Klan, Murder of Mr. Ashburn

The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876

The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by ex-Confederate soldiers and other Southerners opposed to Reconstruction after the Civil War.

More than 6 million African-Americans moved from the South to cities in the Northeast and Midwest between 1915 and 1970. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson documents the resulting...

Chicago has blamed school closures on underutilization. But this explanation doesn’t account for the realities of the city’s history of segregation and its public-housing system.

Over 4,000 racial terror lynchings occurred in the U.S. between 1877 and 1950.

A little girl integrated an all-white elementary school in New Orleans on November 14, 1960. Her innocence and endurance became a powerful image in the Civil Rights movement.

An ardent segregationist who served for 22 years as commissioner of public safety in Birmingham, Alabama, Bull Connor used his administrative authority over the police and fire departments to ensure...

A 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church by the KKK claims the lives of four African-American girls.

Today in 1965, now known as 'Bloody Sunday,' Alabama law enforcement attacked civil rights protesters in Selma.

In light of the Bush administration's secret eavedropping efforts, Farai Chideya takes an in-depth look at COINTELPRO. The 1960s-era federal surveillance program that targeted, among others, the Rev....

Things may seem more diverse, but people of different races still don’t live near each other.

From Alexis de Tocqueville to Ronald Reagan, the forces that have shaped the current state of our prison system.

African Americans are incarcerated in state prisons across the country at more than five times the rate of whites, and... Read More »

As the Michigan city’s water emergency lurches on, pipes are still being replaced—and public trust remains low.

Residential segregation by income has increased during the past three decades across the United States and in 27 of the nation’s 30 largest major

According to a new report, predominantly white school districts receive $23 billion more than districts that serve mostly students of color in the U.S.

Several high-profile cases in the U.S. have drawn public attention to the use of lethal force by law enforcement (LE), yet research on such fatalities is limited. Using data from a public health...

In Minneapolis, police responded to a protest about police violence with more violence.

African Americans are bearing a disproportionate burden of morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19 pandemic. To our knowledge, no previous study has delineated inequities potentially incentivized by...

President-elect Joe Biden calls response a 'clear failure to carry out equal justice.'