At a quiet intersection in an unincorporated rural area of Holmes County, Mississippi, a roadside marker honors the life of Robert G. Clark Jr. (1928–2025). Elected to the state legislature in 1967, ...
WORCESTER – Families and community groups in Worcester are part of a lawsuit against the state alleging segregation in Massachusetts public schools. The lawsuit, filed in Suffolk County Superior Court ...
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Friday warned that Israel’s new death penalty law for Palestinians is racially discriminatory, a “retrogression” of human rights, and ...
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The Conversation: Jonathan Entin, the David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law at the School of Law, highlighted Barbara Johns’ courage, calling her “a 16-year-old who organized a strike that helped ...
Forget science fiction — the race to wire computers directly into the human brain is well underway, and it is moving fast. Neuralink grabbed the early headlines, but other innovators are entering the ...
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(A version of this story first appeared on Dec. 12, 2014.) Three years after Martin Luther King Jr. became internationally famous as the spokesman for the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, he came to ...
Claudette Colvin, a pioneer in the civil rights movement, has died at the age of 86. As a 15-year-old, Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before ...
Claudette Colvin, a woman whose efforts against segregation on Montgomery's city buses predates even the iconic Rosa Parks, has died at age 86. "It is with profound sadness that the Claudette Colvin ...