And it was only 40 years in the making.
NEWSER: Georgia Teens Look to Dump Segregated Proms
April 5, 2013 by 2 Comments
Four students at Wilcox County High School in Rochelle, Georgia, are bucking tradition and organizing the town’s first ever “integrated prom.”
The Invisible World of Rural Black America: Part 3
March 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Two sons of a sharecropper return to the Texas town where they grew up.
The Invisible World of Rural Black America: Part 2
February 25, 2013 by 3 Comments
Join Lola Rainey on a guided tour through American history with her father and uncle, sons of a Texas sharecropper.
The Invisible World of Rural Black America
February 18, 2013 by 3 Comments
Lola Rainey joins two septuagenarian relatives for a Texas road trip through a vanishing America.
Students in Indiana Town Want “Traditional Prom” Banning Gay Students From Attending
February 12, 2013 by 12 Comments
Several students and their parents are banding together to create a “straights only” prom, and they don’t care who they offend to do it.
A Perfect Test
December 4, 2012 by 1 Comment
The American Dream is Dead
May 20, 2012 by 6 Comments
Children from low-income families have only a 1 percent chance of reaching the top 5 percent of the income distribution.
Trayvon Martin and the Fate of the Alabama Segregation Reference Ban Amendment
April 1, 2012 by 7 Comments
Everybody’s talking about the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Nobody’s talking about Alabama Senate Bill 112. That needs to change.
“Caregiver day is a wonderful idea, becase when you love your children, every day is a day you get to be with and celebrate them.”
This is a comment by CJ on the post “What to the Child of Domestic Violence is Father’s Day?”