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'Desegregation made a difference — but not enough of one'
The Week· 7 days agoMany towns "tried really hard at integration," but "large racial achievement gaps persist, students...
'Desegregation made a difference — but not enough of one'
The Week via Yahoo News· 7 days agoSo even seven decades after Brown v. Board of Education, the "idyll of fairytale equality" in ...
700 years to equality. Blacks lag 100s of years behind white when it comes to prosperity.
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoHowever, over half of children in Franklin County are not kindergarten ready, with significant ...
Maryland governor pardons 175,000 marijuana convictions in sweeping order
Washington Post· 1 day agoThe pardons forgive low-level marijuana possession charges for an estimated 100,000 people in what...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 12 hours agoLast month, President Biden declared that he would not support student debt forgiveness and took a huge step backwards in fulfilling the pledges he made to Black voters and Black women during ...
Maryland is pardoning 175,000 marijuana convictions. It's part of a trend
NPR· 9 hours ago“We're talking about tools that have led to the mass incarceration of Black men and boys.” Past drug policies, he said, contributed to minorities having less access to jobs, housing and < ...
Commentary: Juneteenth and the unfinished work of racial justice
Hartford Courant· 8 hours agoIn Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger brought freedom from abstraction into...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 12 hours agoNo, that’s not a Nikki Haley quote. Its decision last year, striking down affirmative action in higher education, denies our country’s racist history, the impact of that history ...
The People Who Dismantled Affirmative Action Have a New Strategy to Crush Racial Justice
Slate· 7 days agoIn doing so, the court’s conservative supermajority both ignored that the Framers of the 14th...
Should financial aid be based on family wealth, rather than income alone? - The Hechinger Report
The Hechinger Report· 4 days agoThe analysis found that family wealth – not just income – affects the likelihood that a student’s...
