The parties to a lawsuit over segregation at Maryland colleges proposed Monday candidates to oversee the implementation of a federal judge’s order despite the state’s last-minute request to stay the process. U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake issued a permanent ...

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The state is asking a federal judge to vacate her judgment from October 2013 finding Maryland’s state colleges and universities maintained traces of past segregation, arguing the court’s decision was based on flawed reasoning that came to light during this ...

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The plaintiffs in a lawsuit over segregation’s lingering impact on Maryland’s state universities are seeking more than $20 million in attorneys’ fees at the close of more than a decade of litigation. The Coalition for Excellence and Equity in Maryland ...

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A federal judge has permanently enjoined Maryland’s university system from unnecessarily duplicating programs of historically black colleges and universities and ordered a special master be appointed to oversee the creation of a remedial plan to “eliminate vestiges of the prior de ...

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Report finding segregation in D.C. schools heads news items including drug treatment for inmates, delaying the bar exam and an admission of firebombing.

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K-through-12 education is vital to this nation’s future and is something that needs to be addressed by local governments on a regular basis, not just during an election year.

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The decision was a major victory in the fight for racial equality. The opinion's automatic use of the masculine pronoun, however, indicates that the United States in 1954 still had a long way to go to achieve gender equality.

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ANNAPOLIS — Attorneys representing historically black colleges said Tuesday they hope Maryland will embrace mediation to create high-demand academic programs at the schools, now that a federal judge has ruled the state is violating desegregation law by perpetuating the duplication ...

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Thank you to all of the people who fought tirelessly and made so many sacrifices in the name of equality.

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NEW YORK — Robert L. Carter, a lawyer who was an integral member of the team led by Thurgood Marshall that turned to the courts to battle segregation, has died. He was 94. Carter, who later spent decades on the ...

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