desegregation

Yvonne Lee Odom has had a 45-year teaching career in Delray Beach, she desegregated Palm Beach County schools as a 15-year-old high school sophomore and is tennis star Coco Gauff’s grandmother.

Magnet programs were initially created to promote innovation and integration — by offering specialized curriculum to draw in students outside of schools' residential boundaries. District officials hope the programs will pull more kids into under-enrolled schools.

In 1947, a 28-year-old baseball player named Jackie Robinson broke the Major League’s color barrier when he signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers.…

More than 1,500 members of the civic group 100 Black Men of America are in Fort Lauderdale this week for the organization’s 28th annual convention.The…

Brown v. Board of Education — the Supreme Court decision declaring segregated schools were inherently unequal — turns 60 years old this year.Earlier this…

This weekend marks the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education — the Supreme Court decision declaring segregated schools were inherently unequal.A…

My maternal grandparents, Sam D. and Ida Ellen Roberts Johnson, were born in Harbour Island, Bahamas. It is believed that their foreparents were among the…

I was born in Nashville and spent the first four years of my life in Tuskegee, Ala.My father, Dr. John O. Brown Sr., moved to Miami in 1955 to begin his…