Mayor Harold Washington is buried in a cemetery that was once for “whites only.” Protests and legislative fights desegregated ...

Homes like D’Agostino’s, typically called coach houses, carriage houses or “granny flats,” are illegal to build in most of ...

The number of foreign students at the downstate Urbana-Champaign campus — well over 5,000 — is higher than had ever attended ...

In this episode of Groundbreakers, Fox 32’s Anita Blanton sits down with Miller Green, a former Freedom Rider whose quiet ...

Former Sidley Austin associate Courtney Anderson began leading the 650-student Atlanta law school on June 1. Courtney ...

Learning about segregated schools in the U.S. is part of the curriculum in the advanced placement African American studies course taught at Waukegan and New Trier high schools. When students from ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says the Department of Justice ... The letter cited the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a landmark win in the fight against segregation of Black Americans that prohibits ...

The event is hosted by three local organizations: the Omaha Municipal Land Bank, Front Porch Investments and Spark. It aims ...

But it wasn’t until his uncle was in his late 70s that he revealed a new story: Manos wrote what were likely the first anti-segregation ... and the Art Institute of Chicago.

In Chicago, some people celebrated the pope ... “In those dark days of Jim Crow segregation, lots of families would make a move and adopt a different racial identity,” Honora said.

In a historic debut at the Studebaker Theater, “She Who Dared” tells a story of pivotal figures who fought segregation ...

A visit to the part of Chicago where the first American Pontiff ... groups could create a “tribal” mentality, he said, and segregation and racial tension between Blacks and whites was a ...