The National Council of La Raza NCLR)—the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States—hosts Achieving the American Dream in a New Century.

On this day in 1995, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus.

It's the ultimate back-to-school story: about 80 middle-aged Virginians are heading back to the classroom--more than four decades after their educations were derailed by the state's "massive resistance" campaign, which led some Virginia communities to shut down their public schools rather than integrate them. Connect for Kids Editor Susan Phillips spoke to recipients of Virginia's new Brown v. Board of Education scholarships.

The mission of this organization is to inform parents and grandparents about children's issues regarding health, rights, schooling, and education.

It would take a lot more than the 28 days of February to explore the new Web-based teaching tool on African-American migration from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rob Capriccioso reports on the recently unveiled “In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience.”

Agenda for Children is Louisiana's statewide child advocacy agency. Its mission is to make Louisiana a state in which all children can thrive, by ensuring that the basic needs of children and familie

The 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court school desegregation ruling in Brown v. Board of Education has produced an outpouring of reminiscence and evaluation. Today, amid national attention to the issues of school reform, school choice, and student achievement, Connect for Kids editor Susan Phillips asks what's next for our public schools.

Gay and lesbian teen-agers, frustrated by the harassment they get at school, are asking their state legislators to step in and pass laws that would do what their teachers and principals are failing to do: protect them. This article first appeared on WomensEnews.com.

Children often see their world through a lens shaped by our media-saturated culture. That's why Connect for Kids' Cecilia Garcia got involved with public television in the early 1970's, when Latinos were virtually invisible on TV. And it's why she found the new Smithsonian Exhibition, Young Americanos: Photographic Visions of Our Community, so inspiring.

In 1957, Dorothy Counts was one of four black students to enter previously all-white schools in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1971, Charlotte became the first city in the country to use court-ordered busing to fully desegregrate its schools. Andrea Cooper reports that students who lived through the first wave of busing now have school-aged children of their own, and wonder when this struggle will end.