[Content Note: Racism.]
"Tuscaloosa's schools today are not as starkly segregated as they were in 1954, the year the Supreme Court declared an end to separate and unequal education in America. No all-white schools exist anymore—the city's white students generally attend schools with significant numbers of black students. But while segregation as it is practiced today may be different than it was 60 years ago, it is no less pernicious: In Tuscaloosa and elsewhere, it involves the removal and isolation of poor black and Latino students, in particular, from everyone else. In Tuscaloosa today, nearly one in three black students attends a school that looks as if Brown v. Board of Education never happened."—Nikole Hannah-Jones, in her extraordinary piece for ProPublica, "Segregation Now."
The above link goes to a text article. You can view ProPublica's entire multimedia report on school resegregation here.
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