Last year, Wilcox County made national headlines as among the last counties in America that still had racially segregated proms. In response, a group of black and white students rallied together to ...

In this extended season of slayings of black males—never for a good-enough reason—discussions about race have become common again. From students in school hallways and random pedestrians on the street ...

(The Root) — Seventeen-year-old Mareshia Rucker knows her mind and is not afraid to speak it. She’s one of the racially mixed group of student organizers who are putting together the first integrated ...