Pope Leo XIV’s Creole Roots Tell a Story of New Orleans
One day in June 1900, a census taker visited the New Orleans home of Joseph and Louise Martinez, Pope Leo ...
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Trump’s Wishes Aside, Censoring Racial History May Prove Difficult
Late last month, when two federal grants to the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana were rescinded, the Trump administration seemed to ...
Alexis Herman, First Black Secretary of Labor, Dies at 77
Alexis Herman, a Democratic Party insider who grew up under segregation in Alabama and went on to become the first ...
After Black Enrollment Fell, Amherst College Faces an Identity Crisis
One of the nation’s most elite liberal arts schools, Amherst College has historically also been one of its most diverse. ...
Trump’s Moves to Upend Federal Bureaucracy Touch Off Fear and Confusion
An Education Department employee was attending a funeral this week when she got the call: She was being placed on ...
The Search for Lessons in Trump’s Return on Martin Luther King Day
On Monday, America will observe both the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose vision of pluralism, ...
On His Last Day in Office, Biden Urges Supporters in Charleston to ‘Hold on to Hope’
President Biden spent his final full day in office in South Carolina, a state he credits for helping catapult him ...
Charles Person, Youngest of the Original Freedom Riders, Dies at 82
Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders who traveled from Washington to Birmingham, Ala., in 1961 in ...
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