KOSCIUSKO, Miss. — A historical marker was unveiled in Mississippi town that was home to 91-year-old civil rights leader James…
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The story of one Mississippi county shows how private schools are exacerbating segregation
The scoreboard glowed with the promise of another Friday night football game in Liberty, Mississippi, a small town near the…
Why Quincy Jones should be prominently featured in US music education − his absence reflects how racial segregation still shapes American classrooms
By Philip Ewell, Hunter College Quincy Jones, who died on Nov. 3, 2024, at the age of 91, was one…
Trump’s next HUD secretary would have a lot to do to address the history of racist housing policy – and Trump’s own comments and history suggest that’s unlikely
Donald Trump has picked former football player Scott Turner to lead the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. While…
Segregation academies in Mississippi are benefiting from public dollars, as they did in the 1960s
By Jennifer Berry Hawes and Mollie Simon, ProPublica Series: Segregation Academies: Decades After Desegregation, Private Schools Still Divide More in…
New Orleans schools still separate and unequal 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education
By Connie L. Schaffer, University of Nebraska Omaha; Martha Graham Viator, Rowan University, and Meg White, Stockton University Sixty-four years…
Buses weren’t the only civil rights battleground in Montgomery – the city’s parks still reflect a history of segregation
By Binita Mahato, Auburn University Montgomery, Alabama, touts itself as the birthplace of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. But although…
Decades after Billie Holiday’s death, ‘Strange Fruit’ is still a searing testament to injustice – and of faithful solidarity with suffering
By Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in…
How an Alabama town staved off school resegregation
In the 1970s, Black students organized protests and a boycott that cost local white businesses money. Today, many families who…
How Black teachers lost when civil rights won in Brown v. Board
By Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz, University of North Dakota; Andrea Guiden Pittman, American University; Andrene J. Castro, Virginia Commonwealth University, and…
