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The US is punishing UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her scathing reports on Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Beneath the official narratives of “stability” and “return,” lies a brutal truth: Afghanistan remains a deeply unsafe country ...
For Sherrill, supporting high-quality tutoring, mental health services for students, and regional magnet schools to help address the state’s de facto segregation found in its schools are among ...
‘Two Schools Within a School’: The De Facto Segregation In Cambridge’s Only Public High School By Ayaan Ahmad, Crimson Staff WriterMay 28, 2025 By Catherine H. Feng ...
Why? Because honest education supplies people with knowledge that enables them to question and disprove what those in power are saying, instead of obsequiously accepting it as fact.
After the Civil Rights era, Black people, under law, were no longer America’s de facto poor class. Civil rights leaders, like Martin Luther King Jr., were fighting for a vision of equality for Black ...
While redrawing the lines that determine what schools residents attend, Anne Arundel School Superintendent Mark Bedell is confronting a history of segregation and discrimination.
But remember what it was originally designed for—to address the historic racism and oppression of black Americans through slavery and Jim Crow, de facto segregation in some of the Northern ...
A powerful new book by the law professor Michelle Adams recounts the failed effort to integrate Detroit’s schools and the case’s relevance today.
During enslavement, Black people were forced to labor for the enrichment of the burgeoning U.S. After slavery was abolished, Jim Crow laws, Black Codes in the South, and de facto segregation inflicted ...
It is why the de facto segregation of our schools and neighborhoods for instance is so pernicious — it’s not just about the wicked intersection of race and poverty but an even bigger problem ...
Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas, one of many that Mexican American kids were forced to attend apart from their white peers, is now a national park.