Sixty-four years ago this month, the Louisiana Legislature passed a bill giving parents public money to pay for private school. Gov. Jimmie Davis signed it on Dec. 4, 1960, less than a month after ...

The conventional wisdom is that racial and economic segregation is bad for poor people and minorities who are stuck in “inner city” pockets. But The Atlantic is reporting today on new research finding ...

JACKSON, Miss. — Filmmaker Stanley Nelson says his new documentary about the courageous activists who defiantly opposed the 1960s segregation of the South may help inspire a new generation of youth.