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In 1936, an African-American mailman created a travel guide specifically designed to help African Americans on the road know where they could go and safe as well as be treated with dignity.

On “Get Up! Mornings With Erica Campbell” during ‘Faith Walk’ she talks about how Sunday is a segregated day. People talk about white churches and black churches and compare the music that they play at them. She mentioned if we’re all love the same Jesus there should’t be any problem. People beat up others with […]

St. Louis Schools plan to draw down its long-running school desegregation program. Observers say the program achieved integration, but mixed academic results.

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According to data pulled from the census, 76 percent of the city’s African-American population would have to relocate in order for Chicago to be completely integrated.

A study of 100 American cities, facilitated by Measure of America (an initiative of the Social Science Research Council), found that segregation is still affecting…

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  There was no pomp and circumstance, no procession with classmates, but on Friday a school district in Illinois finally handed Alva Early his high…

For those of you who continue to see the best in humanity, allow me to step in like Maleficent on Princess Aurora’s royal unveiling with…

For a certain segment of Bill Cosby’s fan base, the legendary comedian is as pristine as it gets. That is, so long as he doesn’t step…

NORTH CAROLINA-After the Wake County School Board voted to end a busing programs that keep school’s integrated in the district, critics are claiming they are re-introducing segregation to North Carolina. The Washington Post reports: And as the board moves toward a system in which students attend neighborhood schools, some members are embracing the provocative idea […]

In America, race and class are inextricably linked. Whether by chance, or more likely, by purpose, that is the reality that we must live with. Most of the children who attend New York’s Lower Laboratory School for Gifted Education and Straus School, and their parents, know this all too well.