Viola Desmond was a civil rights pioneer.
While Judge Haikala recognized that racism was behind the white suburb wanting to break away from the racially mixed school district, she ruled in their favor anyway.
A study of 100 American cities, facilitated by Measure of America (an initiative of the Social Science Research Council), found that segregation is still affecting…
When photojournalist Gillian Laub, began making a film about segregated proms in Georgia, she had no idea that her piece would turn into a much bigger expose on racial bias and crime in America. Laub, the photojournalist who brought a small-town high school in Georgia that still held segregated proms in 2008 to the public’s attention, […]
