Today, Major League Baseball will celebrate Jackie Robinson Day, but it ignores the system pushing Black players out of the ...

Ninety years ago this month, the jazz master flouted a shameful taboo by publicly unveiling his racially integrated trio, ...

On weekday mornings in the 1970s, MARTA’s so-called “maid routes” ferried an invisible army of women from Lindbergh Center into Atlanta’s most exclusive neighborhoods. The buses, numbered in the 700s, ...

Last week, this space delved into how John Hill Westbrook became the first African American football player at Baylor and integrated the Southwest Conference. This week, it will examine how another ...

(The Root) — “Though we have had war, reconstruction and abolition as a nation, we still linger in the shadow and blight of an extinct institution. Though the colored man is no longer subject to be ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...