The battle to expand private education in South Carolina amid the pandemic mirrors previous struggles over civil rights and highlights the ways systemic racism has undermined public education.
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President Woodrow Wilson told Black leaders, ‘Segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.’ He was one in a long line of racist American presidents.
In principle, white Americans support efforts to end racism. But in practice, they have long been unwilling to support the fundamental change needed to do that. Will this year’s events change that?
Despite its progressive image, Minneapolis is one of the most segregated cities in the United States. That is by design not accident, argues an urban planning scholar.
Though he had a speech impediment and came from humble beginnings, John Lewis went on to become a giant of the civil rights movement.
White supremacists feed off a narrative of America being white and Protestant. The Church’s history in the US is enmeshed with racist ideology.
Brutus’s life was closely interlinked with the rise of apartheid and offered a way to look at resistance to this system.
A Richmond court says the city cannot remove its controversial Robert E. Lee sculpture because an 1890 land deed gave the Confederate monument ‘to the people’ of Virginia, not its government.
On June 19, a court will decide whether Virginia must obey a 1890 deed that gave the state a plot of prime Richmond land as long as it would ‘faithfully guard’ the Robert E. Lee statue erected there.
After a riot broke out in 1967, Minneapolis officials squandered an opportunity to address the structural racism that led to George Floyd’s death and a wave of unrest across the country.
NASA scientist Katherine Johnson was instrumental in getting people to the moon. Here are some of the lessons one mathematics professor believes she taught us all.
Black Americans who grow up in racially segregated areas tend to have worse health, education and future economic prospects. Moving out can make a big difference.
The springbok emblem was introduced under white rule in South Africa and by retaining it, it remains a burden for many South Africans who followed the Rugby World Cup.
New York City could be on the verge of dismantling gifted programs at its elementary and middle schools. Taking that step could make things even worse for some of the children it aims to help.
It’s great that toy companies are celebrating diverse role models, but children could be taught so much more in their write ups of their stories.
The 2020 US election could set a record for ugliness and division. Two previous elections provide important context for what that division can mean.
US school segregation is higher than it has been in decades, even if there are no longer overt laws requiring racially segregated schools.
Reparation opponents who oppose truth and reconciliation by insisting that America’s “original sin” of slavery is in the distant past should heed the lessons of Canada and South Africa.
Municipal swimming pools flourished in the 20th century. But too often, their success was based on the exclusion of African Americans.
Scudder’s approach was grounded in trust and mutual respect. There would be no guards, no weapons, no walls and no uniforms.
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Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University
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Professor of Education and Demography, Penn State
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Professor Emeritus of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University
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Professor of Law, University of Richmond
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Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History, Bowdoin College
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Professor, The Levin College of Public Affairs and Education, Cleveland State University
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Professor of Education, Queen's University Belfast
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Associate Professor of American Studies, George Washington University
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Principal Lecturer in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Chancellor, Rutgers University - Newark
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John Rennie Short adalah Sahabat The Conversation.
Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
