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"Underground Railroad to public education" helps parents flee segregation
Axios· 19 hours agoWhy it matters: Rigid school boundaries often reinforce racial and economic segregation, experts say, and these parents believe they are simply going around unjust laws that ...
Record books to be rewritten as MLB adopts Negro Leagues stats
AFP via Yahoo Sports· 5 hours agoMajor League Baseball's record books are set to be rewritten as the sport formally incorporates...
70 years after Brown v Board, Alabama town still grapples with divided schools
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoDuring House debate earlier this year, Republican state Rep. Danny Garrett, the education budget...
How Franz Kafka can help us understand the history of segregation in America
The Forward· 18 hours agoStanley Corngold, a Princeton scholar of German literature, was visiting Jack Greenberg, a Columbia ...
Bar Report — May 27, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal
Law.com· 16 hours agoThe program is for New Jersey high school students and their teachers, attorneys and members of the general public. Space is limited at the New Jersey Law Center in New Brunswick ...
After eleventh-hour plea from Mayor Brandon Johnson, Senate president likely to put school closing...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 5 days agoSPRINGFIELD — After a last-minute plea from Mayor Brandon Johnson, Illinois Senate President Don...
How Residents in a Rural Alabama County Are Confronting the Lasting Harm of Segregation Academies
ProPublica· 5 days agoProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Join us for a virtual...
South Africans still battling ‘economic apartheid’ 30 years on
BBC via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe aim was to take over property close to the city centre, says one of the leaders, Bevil Lucas,...
Adler: The Court’s commitment to equal protection became real and urgent in Brown, 70 years ago
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle· 4 days agoBd. As Justice Stanley Reed, a southerner from Kentucky who made the courageous decision to reject his region’s sentiments on race to form the Court’s unanimous 9-0 ruling, told one of his & ...
Pod Corner: Brown v. Board of Education
NPR· 3 days agoMost of the parents held firm. MARTIN: Dan says Kansas was fated to be a battleground state in the fight against segregation. Unlike some other states, Kansas law ...