Jim Crow in the Classroom: New Report Finds Segregation Lives on in U.S. Schools

As the U.S. Supreme Court upholds a ban on affirmative action in Michigan and the country marks 60 years since the landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Education, we look at how segregation is still pervasive in U.S. public schools. An explosive new report in ProPublica finds school integration never fully occurred, and in recent decades may have even been reversed. Focusing on three generations of the same family in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the story concludes"While segregation as it is practiced today may be different than it was 60 years ago, it is no less perniciousin Tuscaloosa and elsewhere, it involves the removal and isolation of poor black and Latino students, in particular, from everyone else. In Tuscaloosa today, nearly oneinthree black students attends a school that looks as if Brown v. Board of Education never happened." We are joined by Nikole HannahJones, whose article "The Resegregation of America's Schools," is the latest in the ProPublica series, "Segregation NowInvestigating America's Racial Divide."

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