For two nights in August 1908, a White mob laid siege to Springfield, Illinois, indiscriminately looting, burning and destroying Black-owned homes and businesses, in a race riot that would become known as the Springfield Massacre.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation designating the site of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot, one of the most egregious outbreaks of race-related violence in American history, as a national monument.

the remaining survivors of the Tulsa Massacre appealed a decision to dismiss their lawsuit seeking reparations. They’ve vowed to continue their fight up to the Supreme Court.But despite an effort in recent years to teach the history of race riots in some ...