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‘It’s heartbreaking’: 225,000 Mass. students attend substandard segregated schools, new report finds...
The Boston Globe· 5 days agoMCAS exam, 54 percent of students at schools with nearly all white students met or exceeded...
Sheff v. O’Neill was supposed to save and desegregate Connecticut schools. Did it?
Hartford Courant· 5 days agoO’Neill, the landmark civil rights lawsuit that would solidify Connecticut’s school choice system....
Community members reflect on school desegregation and civil rights leaders
The Daily Tar Heel· 5 days agoWhile the U.S. student population is more diverse than ever, with white students representing 48% of the K-12 public schools compared to 87% in 1955, < ...
4 file suit seeking to halt school voucher program, calling LEARNS provision unconstitutional |...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 4 days agoThe four plaintiffs -- Gwen Faulkenberry, Special Renee Sanders, Anika Whitfield and Kimberly...
70 years since Brown v. Board of Educationoutlawed school segregation: The class issues, then and...
World Socialist Web Site· 1 day agoIn one of the most important Supreme Court cases in its history, the unanimous ruling outlawed...
Poverty mires many in segregated schools; some seek solutions
Richmond Times-Dispatch· 5 days agoThe 12th of 13 children, Thompson had not seen much outside of the neighborhood until, during a...
The forgotten racial history of Red Lobster
CNN Business via Yahoo Finance· 7 days agoAlthough Red Lobster’s opening came four years after passage of the Civil Rights Act mandating desegregation of public accommodations, many schools ...
Child well-being ranked 46 again
The Oklahoman· 5 days agoPlus: Despite opposition, commissioners vote to buy land for proposed Oklahoma County jail; Tensions rise as Stitt calls Senate special session
Statement from President Joe Biden on James Lawson | The White House
The White House· 4 days agoHailing from a family of ministers, he became a disciple for freedom and a visionary of the Civil...
James Lawson, towering civil rights activist and pioneer in nonviolent protest, dies at 95
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 5 days ago"He never used the word 'protest,' he used the word 'demonstration,' because he thought nonviolent...