School segregation is on the rise 65 years after the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, according to Gary Orfield, a professor at UCLA and the co-founder of The Civil Rights Project, explaining how Supreme Court decisions made in the 1990s caused schools to start becoming resegregated. https://cbsn.ws/2QlmRG7
- School segregation on the rise 65 years after Brown v. Board of Education – CBS News https://cbsn.ws/2QlmRG7
- AJ+ on Twitter: “A Pennsylvania school district did a shooting safety drill with a teacher dressed in an Arab headscarf, or kaffiyeh. It says it was part of a “costume” not meant to represent a specific culture. Local Muslim groups called it “appalling.” (Image: Penn-Trafford School District)” http://bit.ly/2Qlmz1Z
- Illinois school to reprint yearbooks over possible white supremacist symbols https://on-ajc.com/2QlIJRz
- Trump should spend more fighting hate crimes and white supremacy, critics say – The Washington Post https://wapo.st/2Qlqb43
- Opinion | I Was Racially Taunted on Television. Wasn’t I? – The New York Times https://nyti.ms/2QiJlHO
- Opinion: Trump banishes Harriet Tubman to the back of the bus – WHYY http://bit.ly/2Qj4qlr
- How Rich White Men Win When Abortion Restrictions Become Law – Rolling Stone http://bit.ly/2Qiv8L3
- Revealed: How white supremacists terrorised New Zealand for decades | Newshub http://bit.ly/2QhBXfQ
- Conservatives’ Real Fight Is for the Future of the Family: As misogyny and white supremacy are making a frightening comeback, conservatives have been emboldened to relitigate basic assumptions about women’s equality. | The Nation http://bit.ly/2QmcZvF
- U.S. ill-equipped to fight domestic terror https://on.msnbc.com/2QjcEtG
- Kenidra4Humanity on Twitter: “This infuriates me. Here’s a black college student minding his own business when a Colorado cop racially profiled him. Black men can’t even go outside and pick up trash without being seen as a criminal. This is Amerikkka.… ” http://bit.ly/2whpJe0
- Cato Institute on Twitter: “Harriet Tubman fought enormous injustice and promoted human liberty. She exhibited courage in fighting and breaking unjust laws, and took the lead in putting her views into action. She deserves to be on the $20 bill.” http://bit.ly/2wcpcdg
AND NOW FOR SOME GOOD NEWS
- Billionaire Robert F. Smith to pay off Morehouse grads’ student debt https://on-ajc.com/2Qj8vWF
- David Menschel on Twitter: “My friend Calvin Duncan who spent 28 years in Louisiana prison graduated from Tulane University today.… ” http://bit.ly/2Qn14Oq
- John Urschel on Giving Up Football for a Ph.D. in Math | Time http://bit.ly/2Qjak5W
- JACL Applauds House Passage of the Equality Act – Japanese American Citizens League http://bit.ly/2QlGJJ3
- I. M. Pei and the Asian-American Experience | The New Yorker http://bit.ly/2Qj17e1
- One State’s Plan to Make Violent White Supremacy Grounds for Gun Removal http://bit.ly/2QhpHvK
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