Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The former Buchanan School was one of of four all-Black schools the Topeka district operated at the time of the Brown v. Board of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Oct. 13, the Monroe County NAACP branch will host a community dialogue titled “70 Years Post-Brown: Looking to the Past, ...

Oliver Brown, an African American welder and assistant pastor, brings a case against the Topeka Board of Education for not allowing his 9-year-old daughter, Linda Brown, to attend Sumner Elementary ...

The Brown v Board National Historic Park, 1515 SE Monroe in Topeka, is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.

MERRIAM, Kan. — United States representatives Sharice Davids, Emanuel Cleaver II and Jake LaTurner are calling on the National Park Service to incorporate local history into the Brown v. Board of ...

The "Injustices" series, published by the USA TODAY Network in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative, seeks to confront the realities of racial injustice, reckon with their enduring effects, ...

As the Supreme Court heard arguments in a racially charged Louisiana voting rights case last month, down on its ground floor a special exhibit was running a continual loop of commentary from Chief ...

TOPEKA, Kansas -- Linda Brown, who as a Kansas girl was at the center of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools, has died at age 76. Her father, Oliver ...

The former Buchanan School was one of of four all-Black schools the Topeka district operated at the time of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Evert Nelson Topeka Capital-Journal file photo This ...