President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty over 50 years ago — and while poverty has never been completely eliminated ...

Selma showed the world that change doesn’t come from waiting — it comes from marching, from pushing, from refusing to be ...

Trump has accused the department of “indoctrinating young people with inappropriate racial, sexual, and political material.” ...

Sixty years ago, the first programs of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” were signed into law. They were part of a massive set of legislation that was designed to eliminate poverty and racial ...

After US President Lyndon Johnson declared a ‘War on Poverty’ in 1964, the Office of Economic Opportunity adopted a poverty threshold devised by economist Mollie Orshansky that took a similar ...

Lincoln’s Peace" by Michael Vorenberg examines post-Civil War challenges, questioning if a stronger Union presence could have ...

Teachers union president Randi Weingarten expressed outrage and anger at the Trump administration's effort to cut the Department of Education, his weekend on MSNBC: RANDI WEINGARTEN: LBJ in the 1950s, ...

I was not around in 1896 when the Supreme Court case, Plessey v. Fergeson, gave Black children the right to attend school in ...

The governor has been increasingly promoting the first lady’s Hope Florida initiative within the state Department of Children ...

Community health centers provide primary care for one in five Rhode Islanders. What happens when the safety net providers ...

Over six years and more than 100 articles at the Union, K.W. Lee chipped away at the weak evidence and shoddy defense that ...