Posts Tagged ‘Segregation’
Midwest Nice Apartheid with Reggie Jackson
Join award-winning local historian Reggie Jackson, author of the upcoming book Midwest Nice Apartheid, for a 4-part series on Milwaukee’s history of segregation and its ongoing impact on housing, education, and equity. Presented by the Milwaukee Public Library and America’s Black Holocaust Museum.
Read MoreThe Founders of This New Development Say You Must Be White to Live There
The Arkansas attorney general is investigating whether the community, which has been designed for white residents only, breaks any laws
Read MoreThis Date in History: Brown v. Board of Education Is Decided
Heather Cox Richardson discusses two landmark civil rights anniversaries this weekend, includinf the one that barred school segregarion.
Read MoreThe Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall
The public disagrees whether revoking forced desegregation laws in Louisiana will lead to more education inequality for some students.
Read More‘Segregated facilities’ are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
Although the federal laws are mostly symbolic because individual states ban segregation, many argue that the change is still negative.
Read MoreWatch: Brown at 70—A Reality Check on School Segregation
Dr. Camika Royal, Sharif El Mekki, Dr. Kelly Hurst, and Dr. Gary Orfield joined Word In Black to talk about modern school segregation.
Read More7 Facts About Modern School Segregation
Segregation in schools is illegal on paper but functionally still happens across the nation–and it may be getting worse.
Read MoreBlack couple accused of smelling ‘like weed’ are kicked out of Memphis eatery, racial discrimination suit says
A Black couple from Memphis is suing a local restaurant for kicking them out, claiming they “smelled like weed” despite their own protests that they don’t smoke marijuana.
Read MoreMorgan State University 80-year-old segregation wall comes down in Baltimore
For over three fourths of a century, students at Morgan State University walking down Hillen Road would walk past a red brick wall. Unbeknownst to most, the wall was built by White residents in the 1930s in response to the increasing enrollment of Black students at Morgan State, a historically Black institution. The construction of the “Spite Wall” at Morgan State epitomizes the hate that does not welcome Black students. Destroying this wall is a collaborative effort to reconstruct and expand the University.
Read MoreBlack leaders on Buffalo’s East Side are building markets to address food insecurity
A proposed food co-op might ease the burden on some Buffalo residents who live in what’s known as a food desert.
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