Construction of Interstate 20 in Atlanta in the early 1960s. (Atlanta Historical Society) As you drive on an interstate highway through almost any American city going to work, taking your children to ...

Route 40 spans the nation from the waters of the Atlantic Ocean off Atlantic City, New Jersey, through parts of Maryland, to those of the Pacific off San Francisco, some 3,000-plus miles across the ...

Seventy-five years after cells were taken from Henrietta Lacks, the case still makes the news (“Henrietta Lacks family settles another lawsuit over cells taken at Johns Hopkins,” March 15). The case ...

A 1942 photo of a class in front of the Indian View Church built in 1925, on Upper Mattaponi tribal land. The Virginia Indians are the direct descendants of Chief Powhatan, and went hundreds of years ...

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New sociological research finds that school segregation continues to widen racial achievement gaps among Black, Hispanic, and White students in US public schools. Analyzing standardized test scores ...