Leading up to the 50th anniversary of busing in Boston, a group of educators and community leaders — many who were involved in the initiative a half century ago — are taking a look back at the racist ...

On the 50th anniversary of the federal court decision to integrate Boston schools, a group of 20 people stood on the red brick walkway in front of the Massachusetts State House at one of the first ...

In the 50 years since the court decision that finally desegregated Boston’s public schools, praise for U.S. District Judge Arthur Garrity’s ruling in Morgan v. Hennigan has been scant. Shortly after ...

BOSTON (Reuters) – Four decades after a U.S. judge ordered Boston to desegregate its schools, sparking a wave of violent protest, the incident is set to formally become a part of the history ...

A new walk-and-ride tour hosted by the Boston Desegregation and Busing Initiative is highlighting key locations in the controversial effort to desegregate the city's schools NBC Universal, Inc. Fifty ...

Leola Hampton still remembers the sound of rocks and bricks crashing through the windows of her school bus in 1974. “The quick swirling speed of shattered glass hurling across my face, missing by ...

A driving force behind school desegregation efforts in Boston died. Dr. Charles Willie passed away last week at the age of 94. His family announced his death on Monday. Scholar practitioner Marcy ...

During the time of Brown v. Board of Education, the most radical motives for desegregation were as much economic as cultural. Racial integration, theoretically, would disrupt the historical hoarding ...

Disclaimer: Caleb Symons is a sports staff writer for the Daily. He was not involved in the writing of this article. While the Jim Crow era will forever be etched into American history of the South, ...

“Boston made me feel that I didn’t have a chance, and that’s what racism does to you,” Beverly Crockett-Taylor said as a Black woman who grew up in the Dorchester neighborhood in Boston amid the ...

Leaders and stakeholders in the early movement to desegregate Boston school reflected on buried experiences and lessons of the period at the first forum marking the upcoming 50th anniversary of the ...

It came as no surprise when, earlier this month, conservatives responded to a new desegregation initiative with the charge of social engineering. Under Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD ...