school segregation

A Florida principal has been transferred after she admitted to asking teachers to keep white students together in a predominantly Black elementary school. Principal Christine Hoffman said that the request would keep the white students ‘more comfortable.” Her school, Campbell Park Elementary in St. Petersburg Florida, has 49 white students out of 66 students overall. […]

On Tuesday, vice-presidential candidates Tim Kaine and Mike Pence squared off in the small Virginia town of Farmville. While the debate between the party rivals was the centerpiece, the town itself was home to an incident some consider to be one of the earliest protests that helped focus the Civil Rights Movement. On April 23, […]

  Crispus Attucks High School in Indianapolis, Indiana was already etched in the annals of history after its boy’s basketball team became the first all-Black high school squad to win a state title in the nation. But it has been revealed that Attucks has a far more controversial past that many might not know. Indy […]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board has decided to end a decades-long controversy and rename a high school now named for a Confederate general and honorary Ku Klux Klan leader that some historical records say ordered the execution of hundreds of black Union soldiers. The Duval County School Board said it was following […]