Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legal doctrine of “separate but equal”. It was a ruling that enabled many states to enact racial segregation laws for ...

The discourse around a colorblind U.S. has been going on since 1896, when the term "colorblind" was first used in the ...

This scheme is a backdoor maneuver to privatize education while allowing corporations and wealthy individuals to avoid ...

If the administration's birthright citizenship executive order is implemented, "there will be a new kind of stratification" ...

Rep. Ross Wilburn, D-Ames, said this provision in the bill “takes us back” to the time of Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld “separate but equal ...

Gail Etienne and Tessie Prevost integrated their New Orleans schools at the age of 6 after the Supreme Court outlaws the separate but equal doctrine that was left from the Plessy Vs Ferguson ...

This is what I call the Plessy game. The 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v Ferguson authorized racial segregation in passenger trains. That decision was glommed onto to enshrine segregation across ...

I was recently removed from an academic listserv for expressing my concerns about the administration of Donald Trump. This type of self-censorship permeating across sectors, including academia, is a ...

This prophetic dissenting opinion of Justice John Marshall Harlan in Plessy versus Ferguson (1896) in the US captures the spirit of the landmark verdict of the Supreme Court of India for ...