The Re-segregated South: K-12 Integration Is Losing Ground
Large school districts across the South, some of which had been successfully integrated for years after they were created in response to the Brown ruling,...
Brown vs. Board of Education
Celebrating Linda Brown and Other Black Americans Who Challenged Racism in Education
According to USCourts.gov, Brown vs. Board of Education was actually the culimination of other earlier court cases where African American challanged racism in education. Take...
Is There a Caste System in American Higher Education?
“Do we all want more low-income students? Sure, but we would go into financial ruin,’’ Pérez recently told Jon Marcus of The Hechinger Report, crystallizing...
The Poor School District Next Door
School districts across the U.S. are funded in way that guarantees poor children in low income neighborhoods attend underresourced schools....
New UCLA Study Proves Schools Across the Country Are Still Segregated
New data from UCLA shows that despite the progress we've made since Brown v. Board of Education, school segregationstill exist...
60 Years Later: Sherrilyn Ifill On the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education
President of NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund talks the anniversary of Brown's decision and the work that still needs to be done...
5 Hard Facts That Prove Education Is Still Not Equal
A list of facts and statistics that explain why 60 years after Brown v. Board of education we're still fighting for education equality...
NAACP Celebrates 100 Years with Focus on Human Rights
As the NAACP embarks on its 100th anniversary, the organization and America stands on the cusp of a new era. As the nation’s first African...