US schools still struggle with segregation 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education
Despite Brown v. Board of Education and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the U.S. has implemented policies that further segregate ...
PBS5d
St. Louis NAACP files civil rights complaint over low literacy rates among Black students
The complaint follows years of troubling data showing stark disparities between Black and white students’ reading scores. But ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana4d
'A quiet storm': Hammond's first Black educator, school namesake Annie Burns-Hicks dies
Hicks, Hammond’s first Black teacher and namesake of an elementary school, died on Tuesday, her family said. She was 87.
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18 Years, $2 Billion: Inside New Orleans’s Biggest School Recovery Effort in History
Hurricane Katrina destroyed 110 New Orleans school buildings. How to upgrade them while honoring their architectural ...
Book Review: Wright Thompson exposes deep racist roots of the Mississippi Delta in ‘The Barn’
The barn… is long and narrow with sliding doors in the middle,” writes Wright Thompson in ‘The Barn: The Secret History of a ...
ACLU lawsuit claims a Mississippi county's districts discriminate against Black voters
A lawsuit filed by the ACLU alleges DeSoto's current district map violates Black voters' rights. Here's what we know.
University of Delaware5d
Studying systemic racism
The new UDARI Faculty Fellows are Mellissa Gordon, associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family ...
WLRN5d
University of Miami's class of 2028 enrollment reveals sharp decline in Black enrollment
Preliminary data released by the University of Miami revealed Black student enrollment fell from 9% to 5% for the Class of ...
Federal jury orders Chicago Board of Education to pay $750k to family of child beaten in school in 2018
A federal jury Wednesday ordered the Chicago Board of Education to pay $750,000 to the family of a child beaten in a CPS ...
New America6d
Higher Education Needs Constitutional Guarantees
The differences between what we learn about the U.S. Constitution and the realities of state governance have led many to ...
The Bay State Banner5d
50th anniversary of Boston school desegregation
On Sept. 12, 1974, Boston Public Schools students faced an uphill battle. After years of protests and lawsuits, Judge William Arthur Garrity had found that the schools in Boston were ...
Los Angeles Loyolan4d
Universities nationwide report declines in Black and Latino enrollment in the first class admitted since the end of affirmative action
Several universities have reported notable declines in Black and Latino enrollment for the Class of 2028 — the first class ...