Segregation

Arkansas

Central High families, teacher file federal lawsuit over Arkansas LEARNS Act ‘indoctrination’ ban • Arkansas Advocate

A federal lawsuit filed Monday challenges the constitutionality of a section of the LEARNS Act that prohibits “indoctrination” in Arkansas schools and asks the court to block its enforcement. Civil rights attorneys Mike Laux and Austin Porter Jr. filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas on behalf of […]

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Mayor

You’re RACIST, Mayor Wu! A ‘No Whites’ party is against everything my heroic white grandmother and black grandfather fought for. How dare you drag us back to segregation

Eli Steele is a documentary filmmaker and writer.    When I learned that Boston’s mayor Michelle Wu hosted a racially segregated holiday party for the city council’s ‘Electeds of Color,’ I wondered: would I have been invited? After all, my father is black, but my skin looks white. The ‘no whites’ gathering was exposed this […]

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Alabama

How a Failed Assassination Attempt Pushed George Wallace to Reconsider His Segregationist Views | History | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

After his shooting, a hospitalized Wallace holds up a newspaper touting his victories in the Maryland and Michigan Democratic presidential primaries. Bettman via Getty Images On May 15, 1972, the man Martin Luther King Jr. once called the “most dangerous racist in America” stepped up to the podium at a suburban Washington, D.C. shopping center. […]

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