People who work in government offices get all kinds of flak, often unfairly. Columnist Ed Pratt tells the story of one civil ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Reghan Grimes stood behind the arc. She was cool, collected. Just 45 seconds earlier, Little Rock had ...

The parties reached a settlement in February 1959. The Harlem 9’s children would not enroll in the schools for which they were zoned. Nor would they be able to engage in “open choice” – the parents’ ...

As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...