In her groundbreaking new book, "A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs," Dr. Crystal R. Sanders uncovers a little-known chapter of American history that continues to resonate today: the systemic underfunding of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and the complex legacy of “segregation scholarships.”
Paul Revere Williams is a Black architect who contributed to some of Los Angeles' well-known institutions.
Atlanta-based mom, Kiley Posey has filed a major civil rights complaint against the US Department of education.
Henson stars as Ann Atwater, a Durham, North Carolina, activist who takes on the local head of the Klu Klux Klan in 1971.
Lewis Patrick also shared the instances of racism she experienced in her own life.
(Time) — America’s neighborhoods became more integrated last year than during any time in at least a century as a rising black middle class moved into fast-growing white areas in the South and West. Still, ethnic segregation in many parts of the U.S. persisted, particularly for Hispanics. Segregation among blacks and whites fell in roughly […]
(Diverse: Issues in Higher Education) — Dr. David R. Williams grew up on Saint Lucia, a Caribbean island where 80 percent of the population is Black and residential segregation has not been an issue. But it remains a big one in the United States, he maintains, and in a way not obvious to most people. […]
(Philadelphia Inquirer) — You would certainly expect black and white women to shop at the same stores, luxuriate in the same spas, even frequent the same makeup counters. And more than five decades after Rosa Parks held on to her bus seat, they do. But there was one beauty barrier that was never breached: hair […]
(USA Today) — A Mississippi school board today ended a 30-year-old policy that dictated the race of class officers in a particular year. The old guidelines, which rotated candidates’ race each year, were intended to increase minority representation amid discrimination. “It is the belief of the current administration that these procedures were implemented to help […]
(Washington Post) — Spinning around on the Glen Echo carousel one recent Saturday was a lovely sight — blacks and whites together, laughing and talking, joking about their gray hair and how much has changed in the 50 years since they first met. The scene was a stark contrast to the iconic image of that […]
First segregation, then desegregation, now segregation again?