One researcher argues a general's 200-year-old Kentucky will, and others like it, support the case for present-day ...

The history of New Orleans is about the interaction of different races and cultures that make it one of the most unique ...

Unlike Black children who had to leave their neighborhoods to seek an education, white children in Boston had the option to ...

As a member of the board of advisers for the St. Louis chapter of the Federalist Society, and a Catholic, I believe a ...

I agree! The article is both compelling and important. The Supreme Court would do well to definitively repudiate both these pernicious legacies of the same era that gave us Plessy v. Ferguson.

With grace, humility, and conviction Sherrilyn Ifill reminds us that there is always good work to be done—and that, in fact, we are the ones who must do it.

A historical marker now commemorates the central role that Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Devon ...

Just beyond 2025, you'll find a series of high court elections that together have perhaps even larger ramifications than who ...

The Herald-Leader is celebrating Lexington’s 250th birthday by revisiting key moments in the city’s vibrant history, ...

Ferguson before it was handed down.” The landmark 1896 “separate, but equal” ruling became the legal basis for racial segregation across the U.S. until the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ...