The year 1974 was a crucible in Boston's history. It was a time marked by violent resistance to the forced desegregation of Boston schools. It's also the backdrop of the 2023 novel "Small Mercies" by ...

Leola Hampton still remembers the sound of rocks and bricks crashing through the windows of her school bus in 1974. “The quick swirling speed of shattered glass hurling across my face, missing by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vice President and presidential hopeful Kamala Harris once shared that in the 1970s, she was one of the many schoolchildren bused ...

The school-busing policies of the 20th century weren’t just unpopular; the ensuing fallout to school integration was so great that many Americans have written it off as a total failure. White flight, ...

Forced busing and racial integration in the 1970's create tension at one elementary school In the 1970s, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of busing children to achieve racial ...

Mandating communities to build multifamily housing in their neighborhoods against their will is a replay of forced school busing of the 1970s. And like forced busing in Boston, it is bound to fail.

School busing has for decades been a contentious tool for racial integration. And it is back in the spotlight 65 years after Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to ...

To Sin Wah Lee’s family, she’s known as a “warrior mom,” someone who fights for her children. Back in the 1970s, Sin Wah Lee and other Chinatown mothers organized a three-day bus boycott at the start ...

Despite strong community resistance, court-ordered busing in 1975 Louisville did not result in significant "white flight" out of the county. Studies show a small percentage of white families left, ...