This map contains some images and descriptions of violence. Discretion is advised. Massachusetts was the first state in the nation to outlaw segregation in public schools. Yet for years, the Boston ...

Coverage of the 50th anniversary of a federal judge’s ruling that led to mandatory busing in Boston to desegregate schools is produced through an editorial partnership between WBUR and The Emancipator ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To many outsiders, Boston Public Schools’ court-ordered integration campaign of the 1970s and ‘80s was an unqualified failure that ...

BOSTON — The Boston City Council found itself mired in a bit of controversy on Wednesday when three members of the body voted "present" on a resolution honoring a historic Supreme Court decision.

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the North’s worst episode of school desegregation–related racial violence: Boston’s busing riots. Mobs hurled rocks at buses filled with black students newly ...

Fifty years after Boston’s court-ordered busing plan was implemented to desegregate the city’s public schools, Boston continues to grapple with the fallout of the controversial decision. For Kim Janey ...

Good morning. It’s been a lovely first week (newsletter- and weather-wise). Our inbox is back up and running, and we’re grateful for your comments, ideas, and critiques. For example, reader Amy (and a ...

We want to hear your stories as we enter the start of the school year, 50 years since the Boston Public Schools desegregation busing order in 1974. A fight breaks out at Hyde Park High School in ...