Flanked by county officials and community leaders, David Baldwin turned over a pile of dirt with his shovel, a symbolic ...

Black Americans, who pursued a post-baccalaureate education in the North, traveled by train to their respective colleges and universities from the South ... the age of Jim Crow was often an ...

From a pitch gone not-so-wrong to how she found community through film, the director of "The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat" opened up in this Storytellers Spotlight.

John Howard Griffin gave readers an unflinching view of the Jim Crow South. How has his book held ... the "Palmer Raids" The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime ...

The travel guide suggests a wide range of hair salons, pharmacies, restaurants, and other businesses across the United States.

As Black people fled the Jim Crow south and immigrants arrived from around the world ... the legacy of those original maps lives on. In many communities zoning has grown more restrictive, making it ...

The economic depression of the 1920s and ‘30s forced the state to open its doors to more and more people, including the ...

Former staff at the Southern Poverty Law Center revealed the mismanagement and political turmoil at the SPLC ahead of mass ...

The Black-Jewish alliance broadened the movement, generated momentum and strengthened the effort to address discriminatory laws in the Jim Crow South ... the electoral map, bringing Harris ...

In “America’s Deadliest Election,” Dana Bash and David Fisher detail an especially dangerous episode of political unrest.

USA TODAY recently visited six small towns, all named Hope. For this episode, Dana Taylor traveled to the most diverse in the group: Hope, Arkansas.

As written in 1935, Social Security purposefully excluded agricultural and domestic laborers – jobs often held by Black Americans – to ensure Southern ... accommodate Jim Crow,” as Justice ...