Raymond C. Pierce (Photo courtesy of the Southern Education Foundation) This year marks the 70th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education that ended the legal segregation of American public schools. Today, however, despite much progress on many fronts, resistance to racial integration in education […]
People talk May 18, 2024, outside the front gate of the Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park, formerly Monroe Elementary School. The site hosted a reunion of former students from Topeka’s all-Black elementary schools to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. (Cuyler Dunn for Kansas […]
Sixty-four years ago, Diane Nash asked a question and changed Nashville forever. On Sunday, hundreds celebrated her near the courthouse plaza that bears her name. Nashville’s Metro Council named the plaza outside the Metro Courthouse the Diane Nash Plaza in 2021, and the city held a dedication ceremony in her honor Sunday morning. Nash, 85, […]
Plopped in the middle of the school district in Dallas, Texas, is an island that has existed onto itself for decades. Since the mid-20th century, the town of Highland Park has resisted annexation and today operates a separate, roughly 6,700-student school district that is surrounded on all sides by the 139,723-student Dallas Independent School District. […]
Plaintiffs in a lawsuit that alleges the state Department of Education is responsible for continuing de-facto — or incidental — segregation in New Jersey’s public schools are making progress in closed meetings with the state to settle their differences. The negotiations followed a nuanced October ruling that said New Jersey’s schools are indeed segregated but […]