The history behind Donald Trump’s recent accusations that the South African government is engaged in genocide against white ...

Patricia Stephens Due and Priscilla Stephens Kruize. As FAMU students in 1960, sisters Stephens Due and Stephens Kruize founded the Tallahassee chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality.

Geary mentions this opposition only in passing, but it cuts to the heart of the limitations of both Moynihan’s vision and postwar liberalism’s commitment to racial justice. Moynihan’s opposition was ...

The administration is dismissing cases and unwinding settlements built on "disparate impact," which holds that even neutral policies can lead to biased outcomes.

On April 23, 2025, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14281, titled Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy, seeking “to eliminate the use of disparate-impact ...

On May 4, 1961, seven Black people and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses and headed south to test the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that “segregation in interstate bus and rail ...

A pair of relationships with iconic activists helped define Rogatz's work. She served as special assistant to James Farmer, the national director of Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE, one of ...

Trump’s executive order calls for the repeal of agencies’ disparate impact regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Photo illustration by Slate.

Learn Your Rights Police officers with batons carry a CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) demonstrator by legs and arms during a protest at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, New York, US, 22nd ...

In the early 1940s, his burgeoning public advocacy and organizing efforts brought him to the attention of both James Farmer, director of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), and Randolph, the head ...

Caught in the tides of social and political change, Kendall helped found a chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), an interracial civil rights organization, on Duke’s campus.

Her leadership in the face of such adversity highlights the importance of confronting systemic racism at every level, from schools to society. Bayard Rustin, one of the most brilliant and influential ...