(CNN) — Here’s a look at the landmark US Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education. Oliver Brown, an African American welder and assistant pastor, brings a case against the Topeka Board of ...

During oral arguments on Wednesday, the conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court appeared sympathetic to supporting ...

RHS teacher Donna Avino and local historian and artist Bill Batson teamed up to create the Rockland County Civic Survey Project.

The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 was perhaps the worst incident of racial violence in American history. Our history is as ...

We at the Amsterdam News wanted to take a second to talk about the U.S. Constitution, one of the most influential and “living ...

It is possible that Mr. Trump had “Escape From Alcatraz” on his mind when he declared on social media on Sunday that he had ...

Imprisoned 42 years for a murder he didn’t commit, Jimmy Soto was released from Stateville on Dec. 13, 2023. At the age of 62, he began the formidable work of starting his life once again.

Those five cases combined to form Brown v. Board of Education. And now, to mark the Brown anniversary, the NAACP plans to ...

My dissertation advisor, a veteran of segregated Chicago, liked to say that social science is not rocket science—it’s a lot harder. Social systems and social progress have a lot more variables than ...

In a recent Facebook post eulogizing Pope Francis, I happened to mention that I was born in a small town in a racist state. The point of the article was not racism, it was praising a great pope. But ...

Everyone on the email thread I was on was outraged too. A flyer promoting a May 17 panel event commemorating the 71st anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case that struck down ...