SPEAKING OUT WEEKLY NEWS — The rampant re-segregation of American public schools poses a greater threat to the trajectory of America’s progress than terrorism, nuclear proliferation,...
AFRO — During the era of Jim Crow it was not unheard of to have Black children sitting in hot classrooms with no regard for their...
(New York Times) – Americans commonly — and mistakenly — believe that well-to-do black people no longer face the kind of discrimination that prevents them from...
(24/7 Wall St) – Racial segregation in U.S. neighborhoods has declined over the past several decades but it remains very high. Meanwhile, residential segregation by income...
RIK STEVENS, Associated Press KEENE, New Hampshire (AP) — Fifty years after Jonathan Daniels was shot dead by an ardent segregationist in the southern state of...
John Eligon, THE NEW YORK TIMES ST. LOUIS (The New York Times) — When she tore open the manila envelope on a sweltering morning in...
(ProPublica) – Georgia has been illegally and unnecessarily segregating thousands of students with behavioral issues and disabilities, isolating them in run-down facilities and providing them with...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Although he forged a distinguished career as a 10-term Republican Congressman from the early 1950s to the early 1970s,...
By Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently released a new rule to assist...
CHICAGO (The Washington Post) – When the Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968, it barred the outright racial discrimination that was then routine. It also required the...
(Salon) – The continuing decline of public sector jobs at local, state, and federal levels is having an abysmal economic impact on African Americans, for...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago is the most segregated city in the United States, while also being one of the most diverse, according to a new analysis...
DALLAS (New York Times) — A block from the tourist-swarmed headquarters of the former Texas School Book Depository sits the old county courthouse, now a museum....
Frances Stead Sellers, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—It’s no secret that the stamp of historic segregation is still seared into black and white Americans’...
(The Atlantic) – Like many mothers raising children in Chicago’s housing projects in the 1990s and 2000s, Seitia Harris was afraid of the drugs and...
ALLEN REED, Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Board of Education voted Wednesday to take control of Little Rock schools less than six...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist It’s been almost 50 years since I lived in Tuscaloosa, Ala. I go back from time to time, but not...
CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ruby Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she became the first black student to attend a...
(New York Times) – In the final days before the election, Democrats in the closest Senate races across the South are turning to racially charged messages...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., and the...
KELLY P. KISSEL, Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge Thursday ended a large part of an Arkansas desegregation case rooted in the...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In 1954, Lucinda Todd was one of 13 plaintiffs in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme...
(The Washington Post) – Sixty years ago this Saturday, the Supreme Court found state laws imposing segregation unconstitutional. Progress has been made, but the nation...
The Associated Press On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation of public schools violated the equal protection guarantees of the 14th...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As the 60th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education approaches, a...
