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School Desegregation: Brown v. Board of Education at 60
Six decades after Brown v. the Board of Education, US schools are still segregated. Is the real cause of segregation discrimination in housing and income inequality?
By Warren Olney • • 52m ListenSix decades after Brown versus the Board of Education, American schools are still segregated by race. What happened to all those court orders and so-called "forced busing?" Is the real cause of school segregation discrimination in housing and income inequality? Also, the FCC green-lights paid priority on the Internet, and VA Secretary Eric Shinseki tells Senators he's "mad as hell." Can he head off calls for his resignation?
Banner image: (L) Rally at state capitol, protesting the integration of Little Rock's Central High School; (R) Protest march against the segregation of schools
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3 storiesThe FCC Green-lights Paid Priority on the Internet
The issue of "net neutrality" brought protesters to today's meeting of the Federal Communications Commission. By a vote of 3 to 2, the Commission moved forward anyway with a proposal for "paid priority."
Read the story8 minSchool Desegregation: 60 Years Later
In 1954, the US Supreme Court ruled that legally segregated public schools deprived African Americans of their 14th Amendment guarantee of an equal education. Today, after decades of controversy, school integration has not been achieved. Most black kids still go to mostly black schools.
Read the story35 minShinseki Faces Tough Questions at VA Hearing
Yesterday on this program, we heard charges that Veterans Administration officials were hiding evidence of delays in providing medical care — sometimes so long that veterans died while waiting to get appointments.
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