Politics May 16 President Biden marks Brown v. Board of Education anniversary amid signs of erosion in Black voter support By Aamer Madhani, Associated Press
Nation May 16 Watch 9:12 The lasting legacy of Brown v. Board and ongoing education challenges This week marks 70 years since the Supreme Court's landmark civil rights ruling of Brown v. Board of Education integrated public education. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Annette Gordon Reed of Harvard Law School and the first Black student to… By Geoff Bennett, Karina Cuevas, Leila Jackson
Education May 19 The Brown v. Board of Education case didn’t start how you think it did While the Brown vs. Board of Education case is often celebrated for ordering school desegregation, history shows many black people in the city where the case began opposed integrated schools. By Charise Cheney, The Conversation
Politics Dec 25 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. By Marcia Coyle
Nation Jun 22 Watch 6:46 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… By PBS News Hour
May 22 Have resegregation trends changed your high school? By Frank Bi, Kyla Calvert Mason Use our searchable database to see how these trends are playing out in your high school. Continue reading
May 16 Watch 60 years after Brown v. Board, school segregation isn’t yet American history By PBS News Hour 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,… Continue watching
May 16 Watch Shields and Brooks on Brown v. Board legacy, tea party outlook By PBS News Hour 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… Continue watching
May 16 Have we abandoned the goals of Brown v. Board of Education? By Kyla Calvert Mason 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… Continue reading
May 16 Republicans turn on each other ahead of key primaries By Domenico Montanaro, Terence Burlij, Rachel Wellford, Simone Pathe 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… Continue reading