segregation

August 30, 2011 - Stetson Kennedy passed away on Saturday, Aug. 27. He was 94 years old. Stetson died peacefully in the presence of his beloved wife, Sandra Parks, at Baptist Medical Center South in St.

August 15, 2011 - The role that the conservative billionaire Koch brothers' money has played in an ongoing fight over the re-segregation of public schools in one North Carolina community is the focus of a new video from Brave New Foundation, a progressive media organization based in California.

April 4, 2005 - On April 4, 1968, a shot rang through a throng of striking garbage workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Who fired the gun is still being debated, but the result is not: Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed at the young age of 39 on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.

October 1, 1999 - Fraternities and sororities remain bastions of segregation on college campuses. Some schools are proposing to bridge the gap — but students don’t agree.

March 1, 1996 - A few of the nation’s most segregated institutions — the churches — are reaching out to each other.

August 1, 1994 - Forty years after Summerton won its historic fight for integration, segregated schools still hold the town back.

August 1, 1994 - Vanessa Siddle Walker uncovers the forgotten history of segregated black schools.