Segregation

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January 31, 2011
PHILADELPHIA - The segregation is intended to be a mentoring program, with African-American teachers acting as role models, encouraging students…
January 29, 2011
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Now if the 63-year-old could just shake his penchant for airbrushing his state's segregationist past, a…
December 21, 2010
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The film, "Freedom Riders," recounts the 1961 crusade by daring young activists intent on ending segregated…
December 21, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Gov. Haley Barbour spoke out a day after several liberal activists criticized his published comments about school…
December 21, 2010
OPINION - Haley Barbour's failed attempt to re-write history stems from bigoted white supremacist ideology and must be rejected as…
December 15, 2010
OPINION - The decline in black-white residential segregation is not an equal opportunity phenomenon...
December 14, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - America's neighborhoods became more integrated last year than during any time in at least a century as…
December 6, 2010
OPINION - On this 55th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, perhaps we can finally end the myth of Parks…
December 4, 2010
OPINION - Heterosexual couples are rewarded by the U.S. military with higher incomes, better housing benefits and food subsidies. None…
December 1, 2010
VIDEO - The Ross Cemetery just off Highway 5 between McKinney and Fairview was established in the 1800s as a…
November 8, 2010
We're all super pumped about the results of the 2010 Census. Who isn't dying to find out that white people…
September 10, 2010
OPINION - Much more than empty promises of equal opportunity are needed to ensure an end to the persistent human…
September 8, 2010
OPINION - They have an image problem regarding race that will preclude them picking up moderate white voters who fled…
July 26, 2010
VIDEO - Even after the formal end of segregation, John and Bradford Tatum, said they still didn't feel welcome swimming…
July 22, 2010
OPINION - As a nation, we should remember that racial discrimination, in the form of separate and unequal education, is…
July 21, 2010
RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) - Protesters and police scuffled over claims that a new busing system would resegregate schools...
July 15, 2010
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Integration came relatively peacefully to the North Carolina capital. There was no "stand in the schoolhouse…
July 12, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - It was a work of fiction that reflected the simmering reality of the times, mirroring a national…
June 28, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Byrd's accomplishments followed a childhood of poverty in West Virginia, and his success came despite a complicated…
April 26, 2010
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The private boarding school for underprivileged students now led by Autumn Adkins, who describes herself simply as…