The Highlighter #201: It Was Never About Busing
Hi again, loyal readers! I’m back after a week-long vacation, which involved advanced rest and relaxation, deep conversation with good friends, and newfound res...
Tag: desegregation
The Highlighter #189: The Case for Integration
Most Americans say they want their children to attend a racially diverse school. But in reality, schools are more segregated now than they were in the 1950s. Th...
Nikole Hannah-Jones on Democracy Now: Her reporting on the resegregation of schools deserves to be heard
Nikole Hannah-Jones is my new hero. She’s the author of “Segregation Now,” the ProPublica and Atlantic Monthly piece (that you must read!) ab...
Pernicious effects of school resegregation
This article is a hard one to read. But I hope you’ll read it. In “Resegregation in the American South,” Nikole Hannah-Jones tells the story ...