Ghana has long attracted African Americans who have suffered racial injustices in the US.
The decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court are important to Americans, including these people demonstrating on April 25, 2024.
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As the nation marks the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board, one of its most significant side effects − the large-scale loss of Black teachers − continues to affect America’s schools.
Lester Maddox is sworn in as governor of Georgia on Jan. 11, 1967.
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Ardent segregationist Lester Maddox became governor of Georgia after earning the admiration of white voters by refusing to integrate his chicken restaurant.
Sydney emerges as the most segregated of our biggest capital cities, and the trend will continue without broad changes in government policy and investment.
Between 2010 and 2020, diversity increased in both Detroit city proper and its suburbs.
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Detroit is one of the country’s most segregated regions, but census data shows how that’s changing in both the city and suburbs.
Will Beyoncé’s new album help to break down racial barriers in the country music industry? Here she performs during the ‘On The Run’ tour on July 18, 2014 in Houston, Texas.
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Beyoncé’s country-inspired album has caused a stir because the country music scene has a history of racial segregation that has erased its Black roots and gatekept it from Black artists.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
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As the nation approaches the 70-year anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, an education professor lays out the state of school segregation in America.
Focusing on specialist schools for students with disability misunderstands the royal commission report’s point and misses its major implications for all schools.
Education segregation could continue for Australia’s young people for at least another generation – and possibly longer – in light of the disability royal commission recommendations.
Smoke rises above buildings in Sudan’s capital Khartoum in June 2023.
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The interplay between diversity and urban planning in Sudan has created vibrant cityscapes, but also led to segregation and division.
Joshua Houston leads a Juneteenth Parade in Huntsville, Texas, in a photo circa 1900.
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For the formerly enslaved Black people in Texas, Juneteenth meant more than freedom. It meant reuniting families and building schools and developing political power.
Carolyn Bryant Donham, left, reads newspaper accounts of the Emmett Till murder trial in 1955.
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While Bryant Donham was never charged for her involvement in Till’s death, the Justice Department continued to investigate the case and consider the potential for an arrest as recently as 2021.
Patterns of segregation may repeat if parents continually choose schools like the ones they attended.
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Parents who had positive experiences in school often select schools for their children that are similar to the ones they attended – but if they had a bad experience they avoid those kinds of schools.
In this Feb. 2, 1964, image, Bayard Rustin talks on a telephone from a church in Brooklyn, New York.
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Bayard Rustin led a long and complicated life dedicated to the fight for equal rights. Targeted by the FBI, Rustin became a close adviser to Martin Luther King Jr.
People volunteer at a Native Alaskan voting station on Nov. 2, 2022 in Anchorage.
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Voter demographics and policy priorities are two recurrent, big issues on Election Day – but shifts in election administration and voting laws are new challenges influencing the midterms.
Policemen keep a mob back as James Meredith, a Black student trying to enroll at the University of Mississippi, is driven away after being refused admittance to the all-white university in Oxford on Sept. 25, 1962.
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What’s at stake when Americans lose faith in the legitimacy of the Supreme Court?
An undocumented immigrant from Venezuela kisses the forehead of another immigrant on the island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
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In the civil rights era, ‘Reverse Freedom Rides’ were more than just a political stunt. They were part of a systematic effort to deprive Black Americans of their livelihoods and force them out.
Local school support is fragmented by race and class.
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