The press has long documented violence and helped secure justice. Black journalists have been essential in this work.

Black history is even felt here in the central Arkansas area. Pettis has done extensive ... able to attend classes even after facing an angry mob just days before. "The sacrifices that they ...

Black history is even felt here in the central Arkansas area. Pettis has done extensive ... able to attend classes even after facing an angry mob just days before. "The sacrifices that they ...

The mural, spelling “BLACK LIVES MATTER” in bright yellow letters, was painted in June 2020, turning the pavement into a ...

As a civil rights lawyer who faced resistance and threats, he challenged school districts that tried to defy the Supreme Court’s 1954 ban on school segregation.

TULSA ― A local historian grew up listening to the story of how her great-aunt survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by ...

Rev. D.W. Clark of St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church is escorted away from the mob at Mansfield High School after he was shoved Sept. 4, 1956, during the Mansfield school desegregation incident. Texas ...

In 1956, a white mob rioted in Mansfield ... to the University of Arkansas law school but didn’t go. He was told he had to pay cash up front because he was Black. So he went to Howard.

As we continue to celebrate Black History Month ... 4, they were accosted by a mob of white students as well as 250 Arkansas National Guard officers sent by Governor Orval Faubus to stop them ...

but his application was credited with helping open the law school to Black students later. Mr. Davis graduated from Howard’s law school in 1949 and practiced law in Arkansas with William Harold ...