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Leadership & Policy

Meharry’s Persistence Pays Off

Alumnus’ son takes helm of medical college.

November 28, 2007

Black Greeks: A Legacy in Peril?

During the time of their inception, the purpose of Black Greek-letter organizations was clear. Amid racial oppression and segregation, these elite groups of educated Blacks assumed the charge of activism, scholarship, social uplift and service.

November 12, 2007

School Districts Under Desegregaton Orders Confused By Latest Supreme Court Ruling On Diversity

Officials in Shelby County, Tenn., complain they’ll have to spend millions to satisfy a federal judge’s “arbitrary” desegregation order. It’ll mean busing minority students up to an hour away and replacing hundreds of White teachers with Black ones, they say.

November 11, 2007

“Corridor of Shame” Receives National Attention, But Few Solutions

COLUMBIA S.C. Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards has become the latest Democratic presidential candidate to address struggling South Carolina schools in a rural swath dubbed the “Corridor of Shame.”

October 14, 2007

Report Blames Supreme Court For Re-segregation Of Schools

Resegregation in American public schools has intensified over the last two decades, particularly in the American South, and the U.S. Supreme Court is largely responsible for this trend. Those are the findings in a new report released by the Civil Rights Projects, which is headquartered at the University of California, Los Angeles.

October 2, 2007

Stamp Honors 60th Anniversary

Sixty years ago, a landmark desegregation ruling opened the door toward equality in education for Mexican American students in California — and ultimately for all students in the United States.

October 2, 2007

William Murphy, law professor who challenged segregation, dead at 87

JACKSON, Miss. Constitutional law professor William P. Murphy, who enraged Mississippi segregationists in the 1950s and 1960s by teaching that school integration was the law of the land, died Saturday of prostate cancer. He was 87.

October 1, 2007

Studies show segregation is increasing in Wisconsin schools

MILWAUKEE Segregation is growing in schools nationwide, including in Wisconsin, where it particularly affects black students, according to two new national studies.

September 16, 2007

Report Blames Supreme Court For Re-segregation Of Schools

Resegregation in American public schools has intensified over the last two decades, particularly in the American South, and the U.S. Supreme Court is largely responsible for this trend. Those are the findings in a new report released by the Civil Rights Projects, which is headquartered at the University of California, Los Angeles.

September 13, 2007

New Briefs

LeMoyne-Owen received enough cash to start classes on time; Newark shooting claims Delaware State students; civil rights attorney Oliver Hill, who argued Brown v Board of Education, dies at age 100.

August 5, 2007

Judge says Shelby County schools still unfair to blacks

MEMPHIS Tenn. A district judge has ruled that Shelby County schools still are not ready to have a 1963 desegregation order lifted.

July 26, 2007

Edwards Touts Diverse Schools Plan in Fight Against Poverty

PITTSBURGH Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Tuesday called for measures to strengthen education for poor children and make schools more economically diverse in order to fight poverty in America.

July 18, 2007

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