There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed. ...more

November 9, 2009

About "Sweet Sasha" and "Marvelous Malia," the newly issued dolls that just happen to share names and skin color with the Obama girls: I understand why Michelle Obama is bristling, mama grizzly-like, about the commercialization of her children. ...more

January 28, 2009

PLANT CITY Writer, performer and professional speaker Ersula Knox Odom this month will portray Mary McLeod Bethune, widely known in the 1950s as a civil rights activist, as well as founder of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona. ...more

January 16, 2009

Barack Hussein Obama - won enough electoral votes to become president of the United States. ...more

November 6, 2008

The Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr., who in his 27 years as dean of the National Cathedral in Washington raised his sonorous voice against McCarthyism, segregation, poverty and the Vietnam War while presiding over construction of the cathedral's majestic Gloria in Excelsis Tower, died Oct. 3 at his home on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. He was 93. ...more

October 14, 2008

The following is a timeline of the admission of black students to the University of Florida: ...more

September 18, 2008

The last surviving plaintiff in Topeka's Brown v. Board of Education case, which led to the historic 1954 Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in public schools, has died at 88. ...more

May 22, 2008

"Separate but equal" faded as a guiding principle in public education after a U.S. Supreme Court decision five decades ago that forced racial integration. ...more

November 14, 2007

Desegregation: The Calendar ...more

November 12, 2007

LARGO - "Separate but equal" faded as a guiding principle in public education after a U.S. Supreme Court decision five decades ago that forced racial integration. But the idea, if not the phrase, is making a comeback in a proposal that would steer Pinellas County students to schools in their own neighborhoods – neighborhoods that remain clearly divided by race. ...more

November 12, 2007