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The University of Texas’s Secret Strategy to Keep Out Black Students

The University of Texas’s Secret Strategy to Keep Out Black Students
In the summer of 1955, administrators at the University of Texas at Austin had a problem: The U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education dec...
Posted in Brown v. Board of Education, civil rights, education, integration, racism, school and education, segregation, standardized testing, university of texas, voting rights act

Billionaire Philanthropist Vows To Pay Off Morehouse College Grads’ Student Debt

Billionaire Philanthropist Vows To Pay Off Morehouse College Grads’ Student Debt
  Try as they might, it’s doubtful most commencement speakers make a lasting impression on their listeners. But billionaire Robert F. Smith made...
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Arizona School Apologizes After Little Rock 9 Exercise Brings Up Trauma For Black Student

Arizona School Apologizes After Little Rock 9 Exercise Brings Up Trauma For Black Student
An Arizona school has publicly apologized for the impact of a recent exercise after criticism from at least one parent who said a recent lesson su...
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‘I’m a Brilliant Little Black Boy’ uplifts, teaches and celebrates smart black boys

‘I’m a Brilliant Little Black Boy’ uplifts, teaches and celebrates smart black boys
When Betty K. Bynum and her 20-year-old son Joshua Drummond co-wrote their new book I’m A Brilliant Little Black Boy, they knew it would have an i...
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Georgetown Students Vote To Give Reparations To Descendants Of Slaves Sold To Fund School

Georgetown Students Vote To Give Reparations To Descendants Of Slaves Sold To Fund School
Students at Georgetown University have voted overwhelmingly to create a fund to provide reparations to descendants of 272 slaves sold to fund the ...
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