On the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board decision, AL.com's Education Lab examines the legacy of court-ordered desegregation -- and what opportunity gaps still remain in communities today.

Some of the nation’s most prominent Black political leaders and advocates celebrated the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education Friday by calling for more to be done to end present-day ...

Mary Brown, the first Black person elected to the Pinellas County school board, died March 29 in Pinellas Park. She was 89 years old. A daycare owner and child care director before her election ...

As a Black Southerner and the son and grandson of Jim Crow survivors, my life exists in the shadow of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court decision that turns 70 years old on ...

Board of Education, the Supreme Court decision ... It ultimately led to thousands of Black teachers losing their jobs. Before Brown, Black children often were excluded from public schools or ...

Topeka superintendent on Brown v. Board of Ed. The district at the center of the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which outlawed racial segregation in schools, is now helmed by ...

Black/White & Brown: Brown Versus the Board of Education of Topeka is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones ...

President Biden commemorated Brown v. Board of Education during one of a series of events over the next several days to highlight his commitment to the Black community. By Erica L. Green Reporting ...

And some Black leaders have concluded that the answer ... delivered its landmark decision outlawing school segregation, Brown v. Board of Education ranks as perhaps the court’s most venerated ...

The former Buchanan School was one of of four all-Black schools the Topeka district operated at the time of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Evert Nelson Topeka Capital-Journal file photo ...

NAACP President Deborah Smith-Gregory appeared at the Jan. 26 board meeting, calling on Black and brown students, parents and staff, and Newark’s broader community to resist allowing tensions to ...