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Nation’s Public Schools Have Become Resegregated, Study Finds

Nation’s Public Schools Have Become Resegregated, Study Finds CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Public schools are slipping back into racial segregation, according to a study by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. Released last month on the eve of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the nationwide analysis of enrollments from the 2000-2001 school year found a […]

February 12, 2003

Mamie Till Mobley, Mother of Emmett Till, Dies at 81

Mamie Till Mobley, Mother of Emmett Till, Dies at 81 CHICAGOThe mother of Emmett Till, whose 1955 race-motivated killing became a catalyst for the civil rights movement, died of heart failure earlier this month in Chicago. In an Associated Press article last month, Mamie Till Mobley, 81, said she remained haunted by the Mississippi killing […]

January 29, 2003

Lott Fallout Has Implications for Higher Education

Lott Fallout Has Implications for Higher EducationAffirmative action discussions may influence Supreme Court’s review of Michigan caseBy Charles Dervarics The uproar over remarks by Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., and his ensuing resignation as Senate majority leader is beginning to affect another high- profile race issue — the Supreme Court’s review of the University of Michigan […]

January 15, 2003

Ole Miss Marks 40th Anniversary of Its Violent Integration

Ole Miss Marks 40th Anniversary of Its Violent Integration OXFORD, Miss.James Meredith, whose admission to the University of Mississippi led to a deadly campus uprising 40 years ago, said he wishes he played a larger role in the fight against segregation. “I’m not really too proud because I know that I could have provided stronger […]

October 23, 2002

Little to Gain, Much to Lose

Little to Gain, Much to LoseShould African Americans, as a matter of national policy, receive reparations for the historical crimes of slavery and Jim Crow segregation? That question is being asked with growing intensity across America. But it is the wrong question at the wrong time. In my view, we Black Americans have little to […]

November 7, 2001

New Study Shows Racial Segregation Harms Both Black, White Students

New Study Shows Racial Segregation Harms Both Black, White StudentsCHARLOTTE, N.C.New research shows that 30 years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s order to desegregate the Charlotte-Mecklenburg (North Carolina) School District, racial segregation still exists and that it has a profound effect on both Black and White children. These findings are reported by Dr. Roslyn Arlin […]

August 29, 2001

Resegregation on the Rise, Says Report

Resegregation on the Rise, Says ReportWASHINGTONDespite the push for public school desegregation sparked by the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. the Board of Education, the decade of the 1990s saw school districts around the nation move towards the segregation of Black, Latino and White students, according to a recent report released by […]

August 1, 2001

Racial Segregation Rising in Suburban Schools, Study Says

Racial Segregation Rising in Suburban Schools, Study SaysSTATE COLLEGE, Pa. More minority families are moving from cities to suburbs, but residential segregation has resulted in rising racial segregation in suburban schools, according to a study by researchers at Pennsylvania State and Harvard universities. Segregation in suburbs remains lower than in inner cities, says Dr. Sean […]

June 6, 2001

Voice of Dissent

Voice of DissentBerkeley professor and author of the controversial book Losing the Race, Dr. John McWhorter speaks to Black Issues about leaving the African American Studies Department, being a Black professor and his intense media coverage. By Pamela BurdmanDr. John McWhorter was little known outside the field of linguistics until the Oakland school board passed […]

May 9, 2001

Tennessee Desegregation Accord: “Forty Acres and a Mule”

Tennessee Desegregation Accord: “Forty Acres and a Mule”Tennessee has supposedly “settled” its higher education desegregation case (Geier) amid much optimism that “it’s finally over” — the case has lingered in court since 1968. The accord was drafted to meet a Dec. 15, 2000, deadline. And much like the litigation over the presidential election going on […]

February 14, 2001

Thompson to Assist in Implementation of Tennessee Desegregation Settlement

Thompson to Assist in Implementation of Tennessee Desegregation SettlementNashvilleWendy Thompson, formerly university counsel and assistant to the president at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, has joined the Tennessee Board of Regents’ central office staff as special assistant to the Chancellor for Geier implementation, a position mandated by the stipulation of settlement in the Geier […]

February 14, 2001

Federal Judge to Review Studies on Improving Miss. Black Colleges

Federal Judge to Review Studies on Improving Miss. Black Colleges LONG BEACH, Miss. The state College Board has reviewed draft reports on Alcorn State and Mississippi Valley State that will be submitted to a federal judge in the college desegregation case. Details of the reports will be released to the public after the judge reviews […]

September 13, 2000

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