Tag archive for ‘desegregation’
Notes from desegregation county
Getting rejected by your dream school is a small price to pay for larger racial equality. Or maybe not.
Notes from desegregation county
I was thirteen going on fourteen and already sure of what I was going to be as an adult: an artist. For as long as I can remember, I have known that I receive a great deal of satisfaction and even feel a sense of “completion” from creating art. The year I turned fourteen, I [...]
Colorblind or willfully blind?
The Supreme Court decision today on two school segregation cases is a crazy retreat from the national policy of desegregation set in place by Brown vs Board of Ed in 1954. Given the altered balance of the Court over the past decade, though, it is a retreat that is both totally shocking and not surprising. [...]
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