segregation

As Black History Month winds down, we take a look back at Columbia's Douglass High School in the 1950s when today's guest, Barbra Horrell (alongside Dr. Eryca Neville, current DHS principal), attended what was then a segregated all-Black school: "I kind of say that we're a tale of two cities." February 27, 2026

A new report from St. Louis University researchers found that many Black teachers in Missouri faced employment termination or other forms of classroom displacement as a result of integration between 1954 and 1970.

The Arkansas group Return to the Land, which explicitly bans Jews and non-whites from membership, is exploring the idea of expanding into the Springfield area. Both Democratic and Republican legislative leaders from the area spoke out against the plan.

On Wednesday, the society put on a lecture by Professor Crystal R. Sanders, who holds a doctoral degree in history.

When Mary Ratliff moved to Columbia from Mississippi in 1959, she was leaving one of the epicenters of American segregation and the burgeoning civil…

Boxes of tissues lined the sanctuary of Missouri United Methodist Church on Saturday morning, but laughter frequently filled the air as family, friends…