The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in cases involving workdays, schools, train cars and birth control.

In game two, Margaret Shelton, a homemaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania faced off against Jaskaran Singh, a consultant from ...

When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is ...

In this Caprock Chronicles series, attorneys Chuck Lanehart and Dwight McDonald explore a shameful part of Lubbock's past - ...

The path toward equity in Austin education is long and fraught. Efforts to create fair learning opportunities for all children continue to this day.

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

Black History Month is an annual observance centered on celebrating the history, heritage, cultural influence and social ...

it was used to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson because of one word: equal. Oliver Brown’s daughter had to be bused to a school far from her family’s home in Topeka, Kansas, even though they lived ...

St. Louis No. 1 is the final resting place of many notable New Orleanians including Homer Plessy and (purportedly ... It's only logical for New Orleans to be home to a jazz museum, for this ...

This effort culminated in 1892 with the Supreme Court case Plessy vs. Ferguson ... has agreed to pay reparations to residents who lost their homes in the 1960s in an area of the resort town ...