Tag: Segregation
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“If it’s not good enough for my child, then why are we putting any children in those schools?”
If you not already heard it, this Fresh Air interview with New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones about public school segregation is essential listening. A taste: The original mission of public schools … is this understanding that no matter where you come from, you will go into the doors of a school and every child will receive…
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“In Chicago, homicide rates correspond with segregation”
Whether exacerbated by gangs or guns, though, Chicago’s killings are happening on familiar turf: Its poor, extremely segregated neighborhoods on the South and West Sides. And many say that is Chicago’s real violence issue. “Where do gangs come from? They tend to take root in the very same neighborhoods that drive these other problems,” said…
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Segregation, Poverty, and White Amnesia
Racial segregation devastates Black communities. Who’s responsible?
David W. Swanson 