Part I. Ancestries : Seventy centuries of city-splitting : Before race mattered ; The long shadow of the Ziggurat ; Segregating strangers ; Scapegoat ghettos ; Quarters for classes, crafts, clans, ...

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As anti-trans legislation has ramped up, historian Jules Gill-Peterson turns the lens to the past in her book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny.... The history of trans misogyny is the history of ...

Montgomery, Ala., touts itself as the birthplace of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. But although Montgomery now embraces its history of bus boycotts and protest marches, it remains one of the most ...

CHICAGO (AP) — As a child, Linda Davis and her mother broke clay pots over the gravesites of their ancestors, allowing the flowers in them to take root. When she returned to Brooklyn Cemetery in ...

California’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing law says local housing policy must include meaningful actions to replace “segregated living patterns with truly integrated and balanced living ...

In the early 1950s, change was rippling through society. Separate but equal laws divided American civilian sectors by race. The United States military branches were dealing with dismantling ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The Coming Street Fire Station in Charleston serves as a physical reminder of the contributions and accomplishments of the Black community in Charleston. With its extensive ...

An elementary school in Georgia has been called out after a teacher put up “For Whites Only” and “For Colored Only” signs as part of a history lesson on segregation. The signs were put up over water ...

ATHENS, Texas (KLTV) - It is the end of a new beginning for a school that opened in the city of Athens in 1955, but its history is not being erased. The R.C. Fisher school in Athens will soon be ...