Mansfield community remembers attempt to desegregate 70 years later
Sunday marks the 70th anniversary of the unsuccessful attempt to integrate Mansfield schools.
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Sunday marks the 70th anniversary of the unsuccessful attempt to integrate Mansfield schools.
Lee, who will turn 100 in October, is recognized for her lifelong commitment to unity, freedom, community outreach, and fighting to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.
The Trump administration argued that Harvard unlawfully discriminated against Jewish and Israeli students, in violation of federal civil rights law.
House Speaker Mike Johnson's office has denied a request to have the late Rev. Jesse Jackson lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda due to past precedent.
"We, just like Jesse Jackson, need to take the torch and move it to the future so that we can inspire the future leaders, husbands, fathers, mothers of the future."
The Trump administration is asking a federal court to end Garland ISD's 56-year-old desegregation order, even as local leaders say the plan has helped create more equitable outcomes for students.
A longtime Martin Luther King Jr. Day tradition returned to Arlington Monday night.
Wednesday is expected to be one of the most significant moments in the history of the Dallas County Commissioners Court.
The Black Academy of Arts and Letters will kick off MLK Day with its 43rd annual Black Music and Civil Rights Movement Concert.
In 1955, at the age of 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks' act of defiance.
The Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs will meet on Monday to consider SB 7, mandating the bathrooms transgender people may use in government and school buildings.
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas says the U.S. Department of Justice has opened a federal civil rights investigation into a Muslim-centered planned community around one of the state's largest mosques near Dallas.
It was 1956, and the city of Denton was undergoing change that was met with resistance towards Black Americans.
It has been 60 years since Malcolm X was assassinated in NYC, and his family is calling for the documents in the case to be declassified.
His comments received applause from attendees, including state and business leaders along with his supporters.
Elon Musk's pledge to give away $1 million a day to voters for signing his PAC's petition is prompting questions about its legality.
Federal investigators accuse TJJD of engaging in a "pattern of abuse" at its five secure facilities across the state.
That law paved the way for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which ended discriminatory voting laws.
Title IX protects against sex discrimination in education programs.
Civil rights icon Opal Lee will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Southern Methodist University.
Dallas megachurch pastor Dr. Frederick Haynes III will step down as president and CEO of Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
Civil rights icon Juanita Craft was the first black woman to vote in a public election in Dallas County and later served two terms on the Dallas City Council.
Some librarians who've been fired as they take a stand against discrimination and banning books are turning to a federal civil-rights enforcement agency for help.
It's on the same plot of land where her childhood home once stood.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner was chosen by a panel of experts from a list of just over 350 nominations.
