U.S. District Judge Edmund LaCour Jr. granted Russellville City Schools' request to end federal oversight on October 7, ...

Three decades-old desegregation cases in Alabama have been dismissed, as part of an effort by federal lawyers to end court oversight of local school systems. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to close decades-old lawsuits that still impact local school districts. But some Alabama lawyers and advocates say school desegregation cases, some ...

Four more Alabama school districts, including Morgan County and Athens City, have been declared unitary and released from ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - They were just kids when they took a stand for equality. Four of the plaintiffs in the case that helped desegregate Alabama schools (Lee v. Macon County Board of Education) ...

African American civil rights activists in Huntsville, Alabama formed a “psychological warfare committee” to outsmart white supremacists and force the Rocket City to desegregate.

For decades, some of Alabama’s school desegregation cases have remained legally open but largely out of public view, sitting on inactive federal court dockets long after judges found that the ...