The ranks of Black teachers have been decimated since public schools were ordered desegregated in 1954. LWA via Getty Images
by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz, University of...
President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Congressman James E. Clyburn. (Photo: DreamInColor Photo / NNPA)
by Stacy M. Brown and Ashleigh Fields, The Washington...
How school attendance zones are drawn can affect segregation.
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by Erica Frankenberg, Penn State
Brown vs. Board of Education, the pivotal Supreme Court...
by Jonathan Entin, Case Western Reserve University
Over the past seven decades, longtime Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King...
Court-ordered desegregation has happened in the U.S. as recently as 2015, when a federal judge issued a desegregation order to the Cleveland, Miss., school...
by Connie L. Schaffer, University of Nebraska Omaha; Martha Graham Viator, Rowan University, and Meg White, Stockton University
They were known as “the McDonogh Three,”...
School funding inequities persist along racial and economic lines.
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Derek W. Black, University of South Carolina and Axton...
