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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas will require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a new law that will make the state the nation’s largest to attempt to impose such a mandate.

A Gazette and Daily survey in 1957 of seven other county pools outside York showed Jim Crow swam there. “Most facilities resort to a member device which evades equal rights law,” a Gazette and ...

Jim Crow laws, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, made it perfectly legal to discriminate against a person based on the color of their skin. Into the 1960s, a Black or Latino ...

Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday defended Illinois' sanctuary laws protecting undocumented immigrants at a hearing before Congress, while accusing President Donald Trump of "abuses of power" by ...

Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday defended Illinois’ sanctuary laws before a House committee hearing and blasted the Trump administration for “abuses of power” amid a crackdown on undocument… ...

The Arkansas law, which requires the Ten Commandments to be prominently displayed in public school classrooms and libraries, takes effect in August. What To Know The lawsuit was filed on behalf of ...