As Bell stood in line, she says, she watched the teacher, who was white, embrace and smile at Jena’s better-off whites, even as she greeted black and lower-class white parents much less warmly.

Once called the “Rosa Parks of legal education” by President Obama, Derrick A. Bell—the first tenured black professor at Harvard Law School—died Wednesday night. He was 80 years old.

Black and white photos aren’t old school for teens at Schack Art Center The photography contest, in its 29th year, had over 170 entries. See it at the Schack in Everett through May 5.

As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought, Jelani Cobb writes.

In Belmont, Mass., Ikenna Ugbaja, also 17, recalled the large bell on the campus of his private, all-boys school — a bell once used to summon enslaved people on a Cuban sugar plantation.

Today, Baker-Bell said, many educators dismiss Black English as “poor grammar and ignorance,” ignoring the fact that it possesses all the components of a valid language and has, in fact, been ...

In 1972, before turning 43, Bell was an up-and-coming middle school principal in Dallas ISD when he was tapped to become the district’s first Black assistant principal at an all-white school ...