The U.S. Supreme Court's celebrated ruling in Brown v.... Fenwick told ABC News that today's education system is still affected by the atomic bomb-like response.... Leslie T. Fenwick author headshot for" Jim Crow's Pink Slip." Harvard Education Press" The radioactive bomb was[ white] massive resistance," she said, adding that" it nearly decimated the Black educator pipeline."" History is not dead....

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The British Columbia government is asking residents to provide input on proposed anti-racism legislation as members of marginalized communities say the collection of data will help groups flourish. Rachna Singh, the parliamentary secretary for anti-racism initiatives, says the public feedback will help better identify systemic racism in existing government programs.B.C. residents can share their thoughts through an online government portal until Nov.... 30. Singh says systemic racism has led to

Open this photo in gallery Gloria Richardson, head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, pushes a National Guardsman's bayonet aside as she moves among a crowd of African Americans to convince them to disperse in Cambridge, Md.on July 21, 1963.... With the closing of the area’s largest employer, a meatpacking company, Black unemployment had shot up to 30 per cent, compared with 7 per cent among whites. Student activists had already begun to mount sit-ins and boycotts of local businesses

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.— Maxine McNair, the last living parent of any of the four Black girls killed in a notorious 1963 Alabama church bombing, died Sunday.... A cause of death was not given. McNair’s daughter, 11-year-old Denise, was the youngest girl killed in the bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church, the deadliest single attack of the civil rights movement.... Also killed were three 14-year-olds: Addie Mae Collins, Carole Rosamond Robertson and Cynthia Dionne Wesley....

close Video Biden administration proposing new rules for charter school grants Tripp Scott Attorneys at Law CEO Ed Pozzuoli joined' Fox Friends'to discuss why the new rules make it more challenging to secure federal funding.... This is neither a frugal effort to save taxpayer money nor a federalist bid to extricate Uncle Sam from local education.... Instead, Team Biden’s new rules seem hand-crafted to torture charter-school managers....

Protests in Los Angeles are entering their fourth day over the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. President Donald Trump, over the weekend, called protesters" violent, insurrectionist mobs" after he deployed the National Guard despite objections from California's Democratic Gov.... The last time the act was used was in 1992 during the Los Angeles riots." Depends on whether or not there is an insurrection," Trump replied. When asked by Scott if he thought an insurrection was taking pl

I know his character, his heart, and his record.... Joe Biden has stood for the hard-working people of South Carolina.... I'm calling on you to stand with@ JoeBiden." The endorsement was no surprise, but it was still an important one for Biden....

Listen 9 min Comment on this story Comment Gift Article Share On a summer evening in 1979, long before the advent of DNA evidence, a 28-year-old federal worker named Vickie Lynn Belk, who had been abducted in the District, was found dead beside a rural road in Southern Maryland.... Court records do not indicate whether he has entered a plea.... The Maryland public defender’s office, which is representing Taylor, declined to comment. When Belk was killed, law enforcement agencies hadn’t yet beg

The two winners will face off against each other on Nov.... Wu’s parents immigrated to the United States from Taiwan.... Essaibi George describes herself as a first generation Arab-Polish American....