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Part I. Ancestries : Seventy centuries of city-splitting : Before race mattered ; The long shadow of the Ziggurat ; Segregating strangers ; Scapegoat ghettos ; Quarters for classes, crafts, clans, ...

On a chilly Friday in February, students of La Porte ISD’s Academy of Viola DeWalt learned about the history behind their school’s namesake. DeWalt was the first Black teacher in La Porte ISD, and ...

Montgomery, Ala., touts itself as the birthplace of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. But although Montgomery now embraces its history of bus boycotts and protest marches, it remains one of the most ...

“The occupational segregation and income inadequacy rampant across our state today is the direct consequence of policies that have intentionally excluded and marginalized people of color and women and ...

As anti-trans legislation has ramped up, historian Jules Gill-Peterson turns the lens to the past in her book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny.... The history of trans misogyny is the history of ...

NINETY SIX — In some ways, the old Edgewood School is a memory of the Jim Crow regime that once oversaw education in South Carolina. The campus was a so-called equalization school in Ninety Six, a ...

Last month, an article was published in the Connecticut Mirror detailing the story of a recent Hartford Public School graduate who was never taught to read or write. This student, Aleysha Ortiz, first ...

Trans women have become culturally associated with the violence they face, both in sympathy and stigma. The historian Jules Gill-Peterson looks to how that came to be in her book, A Short History of ...