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

In 1787, the U.S. Constitution was amended to include the Fugitive Slave Clause. This clause made it illegal for enslaved ...

The Legislature passed laws allowing smaller homes on smaller lots and making it harder for neighbors to block new housing.

Rosemary Pope, a longtime community leader in southeastern San Diego, was born in 1945 and raised in Macon, Ga., when public ...

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

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 ...

If you’re wondering what happens when history is bowdlerized or suppressed, lies are enshrined, free enquiry stifled, empathy ...

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 ...

California’s court fight to reign in the president's use of troops in Los Angeles now hangs on a 19th century law with grim ...