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Monday, May 19, 2014

Segregation Nation: Recap and video from visit to @MSNBC @MHPshow #afamedchat | Cloaking Inequity

Segregation Nation: Recap and video from visit to @MSNBC @MHPshow #afamedchat | Cloaking Inequity:



Segregation Nation: Recap and video from visit to @MSNBC @MHPshow #afamedchat

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From MSNBC:
Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, segregation remains in some public schools. ProPublica’s Nikole Hannah-Jones, The Advancement Project’s Judith Browne Dianis, Julian Vasquez Helig from the Educational Policy and Planning Program at the University of Texas, The Century Foundation’s Halley Potter and MSNBC.com’s Trymaine Lee join Melissa Harris-Perry to discuss.
The first segment of the show What’s causing racial segregation in schools? was based ProPublica’s Nikole Hannah-Jones piece on the purposeful and recent resegregation of Tuscaloosa’s schools from the view of city residents. You can read the entire ProPublica article here.
Click on the photo below for the first segment of the show.
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My comment in the first segment at about 6:15 was based on our research on triple segregation of immigrant students in Texas that we conducted last year that I discussed in the posts Expansive School Segregation in Texas: Predicts Accountability Rating and Breaking News: School Segregation Study Strikes A Nerve
In the six decades since the Supreme Court found that segregated schools were unconstitutional and 
Segregation Nation: Recap and video from visit to @MSNBC @MHPshow #afamedchat | Cloaking Inequity: