Boynton Beach city commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to repeal three segregation ordinances created a century ago. The ordinances — which haven’t been enforced for decades — separated ...

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — In a symbolic step towards unity, Boynton Beach city leaders officially wiped out laws created a century ago, prohibiting residents of the opposite race from entering ...

Decision by decision, the Republican-appointed Supreme Court majority is hardening America’s division into a two-tier society.

Black Judges Discuss Growing Up During Segregation, Efforts to Diversify the Profession “Segregation was an impetus for me. It was my life. It's my lived experience,” said Ninth Circuit Judge Johnnie ...

Soon after the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling that segregated schools are “inherently unequal,” many Negroes hoped that Northern de facto segregation caused by housing patterns would be labeled just as ...

Christian Estevez, the son of Dominican immigrants, grew up in the 1970s in Plainfield, New Jersey, at a time of widespread white flight. Most of the children in his crowded elementary school classes ...

It comes 64 years after Parks was arrested for violating segregation laws. City officials in Montgomery, Alabama, unveiled a new statue of Rosa Parks on Sunday, exactly 64 years after the civil rights ...