The simmering racial tensions behind the Supreme Court’s canceled Christmas party of 1947
Seventy years ago, seven of the nine Supreme Court justices gathered in their conference room to discuss a simmering racial controversy triggered by their law clerks' request for a Christmas party.
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In Southern schools, segregation and inequality aren’t just history — they’re reality
Last month, a Mississippi judge ordered the state’s public schools to desegregate, illuminating the ongoing struggle to comply with the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault talks to Maureen Costello of the Southern…
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60 years after Brown v. Board, school segregation isn’t yet American history
Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the question of how far we’ve come in eliminating segregated education is not a simple one. Gwen Ifill leads a discussion with Cheryl Brown Henderson of the Brown Foundation for Educational Equity,…
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to the discuss the week’s news, including the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of education ruling, Karl Rove’s comments about Hillary Clinton’s health and…
When 17-year-old Jessica Black walks to school, the neighbors she sees mirror her city’s diversity. There are white, Asian, black and interracial families living on her block in Washington, D.C. But at Calvin Coolidge High School, where she is a…
Today in the Morning Line: Caught in the crossfire in Georgia GOP Senate primary Family feuds come with risk DHS Secretary Johnson says “fresh start” needed on deportation policy 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board Georgia Senate race gets…
John Hope Franklin, a descendent of slaves and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work in civil rights, talks about his new autobiography.
The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case desegregated America's public schools, but most minority students still attend schools where they are the majority. Gwen Ifill talks to four experts about the ways Brown has brought about change,…
