When Lexie Webster integrated an Indianapolis neighborhood in 1963, fences went up. She spent her 96 years breaking down ...

The Color of Law is a call to action for a new constitutional movement to own up to the long history of official discrimination throughout the country—a history that persisted long after slavery, and ...

Editor: Every so often someone writes this paper proclaiming how Republicans have always championed civil rights and true equality while the mean old Democrats have been against minorities from the ...

The July 4, 1910 title fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries led to riots, mayhem, murder — and the racially motivated ...

As fireworks light up the night sky, let us remember that the truth is also a source of light. America's promise remains ...

Jim Obergefell never planned to sue the state of Ohio, but his love for his husband drove him to become a pioneer for LGBTQ+ ...

Here, officials reclaimed the town’s history by renaming a street that once divided Black and white communities during the Jim Crow era. “Well, back in the day, it was just one street they call it ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas will require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a new law that will make the state the nation’s largest to attempt to impose such a mandate.

Abraham Lincoln is dead. As the United States tries to rebuild after the Civil War, the country faces the immense proble | dG1fSm1QbjY2UGpkMms ...

Congressman Crow says the resolution would make June 21 National ASK Day, a day meant to encourage parents to ask beforehand if their children will be visiting a home with an unsecured gun.

A Gazette and Daily survey in 1957 of seven other county pools outside York showed Jim Crow swam there. “Most facilities resort to a member device which evades equal rights law,” a Gazette and ...