July 23 8 am Princeton Board of Education Policy Committee hearing on renaming John Witherspoon Middle School Written comments on the subject of the JWMS name may be submitted to the Board via feedback@princetonk12.org. To join the meeting on Thursday morning,…
Read MoreTom Jackman’s article describes the efforts of Hightstown, NJ high school students to get the federal government to release information about 128 “cold” cases of lynchings of black Southerners in the decades after World War II . “Hightstown High School…
Read MoreGene Demby of NPR’s Code Switch reviews the history of government policies that created and reinforced segregation. The Fair Housing Act was an attempt to correct the situation that failed time and time again. To watch the 6 1/2 minute…
Read MoreTerry Gross interviews Richard Rothstein, whose new book, The Color of Law, examines the local, state and federal housing policies that mandated segregation.
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