Two Colerain High School students in Cincinnati made a mockery of prejudice by taping "Whites only" & "Blacks only" signs on water fountains.

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Now 82 and slowed by age, NAACP activist Claudette Colvin is asking a court in Montgomery to wipe away her 1955 conviction for assaulting a police officer during a bus incident that occurred months before Rosa Parks' historic case.

One Atlanta mom found out that not all students are treated equally after she discovered that Black second graders at her local elementary school were intentionally being put in separate classes from their white colleagues.

Michigan's largest city has a lot of work to do when it comes to race relations following a new study that says Detroit is actually the most segregated city in the United States.

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Joe Biden  refused calls to apologize Wednesday for saying that the Senate “got things done” with “civility” even when the body included segregationists with whom he disagreed. His rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, including the two major black candidates in the contest, roundly criticized Biden’s comments. But Biden didn’t back down and was particularly […]

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Parents of kids at a celeb-friendly private school in New York’s West Village are reportedly furious over its plan to segregate students by race. In the last month, parents at the $45,485-per-year Little Red School House — which educates the children of David Schwimmer, Christy Turlington Burns and Sofia Coppola, among other stars — were told that Director Philip […]

Little Known Black History Facts

While President John F. Kennedy became a symbol of civil rights after his assassination, that wasn’t always the case for the former U.S. Senator and Congressman. On this day in 1963, President Kennedy delivered his famous” Report to the American People on Civil Rights” address on radio and television, which led to the signing of the […]

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Elmore Bolling defied the odds against black men and built several successful businesses during the harsh era of Jim Crow segregation in the South. He had more money than a lot of whites, which his descendants believe was all it took to get him lynched in 1947. He was shot to […]

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Like any other American family, Black families enjoy the tradition of the summer vacation. But that was an increasingly difficult thing to do during the Jim Crow era. Thanks to the savvy of a pair of Black businessmen, Lincoln Hills County Club served as a refuge for Black families in Colorado, around the country and […]

2/12/18- Nothings wrong with handicap and senior citizens parking but on this Guy’s Got A Gripe, Guy’s not happy with “special” parking spots. One’s like reserved parking, resident parking, future resident parking and pregnant parking are what Guy considers as segregation in parking! READ MORE STORIES ON BLACKAMERICAWEB.COM: GET THE HOTTEST STORIES STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX: 

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An iron collar that kept slaves in bondage. A branding iron that marked human beings as someone’s property. A photograph of black babies captioned as “alligator bait.” A fine china plate with gold lettering that says, “KKK ‘God Give Us Men.'” They’re among the artifacts of slavery and segregation collected by NFL […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Too often, low-income, black, and Latino students end up in schools with crumbling walls, old textbooks, and unqualified teachers, according to a report released Thursday by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The commission said inequities are caused by the fact that schools are mostly funded with state and local tax dollars. […]