Appreciate this Code Switch episode about public schools & the decision that Black (& Indigenous & etc) make: do I put my kid in a predominantly white school where they will get a better education but be the "only", or in a "bad" school with others who look like them?
www.npr.org/2026/10/02/n...
www.npr.org/2026/10/02/n...
Let’s stop pretending we desegregated schools : Code Switch
Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education, Black parents still face an impossible choice about where to send their kids. Gene talks with his twin sister about the different choices they’ve made ...
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October 3, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Appreciate this Code Switch episode about public schools & the decision that Black (& Indigenous & etc) make: do I put my kid in a predominantly white school where they will get a better education but be the "only", or in a "bad" school with others who look like them?
www.npr.org/2026/10/02/n...
www.npr.org/2026/10/02/n...
Maybe because Soul Train was born this day in 1971 I want to tell this story.
I was born in the Jim Crow south. When I began high school in 1972 it was just five years after local schools had desegregated.
I was born in the Jim Crow south. When I began high school in 1972 it was just five years after local schools had desegregated.
October 3, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Maybe because Soul Train was born this day in 1971 I want to tell this story.
I was born in the Jim Crow south. When I began high school in 1972 it was just five years after local schools had desegregated.
I was born in the Jim Crow south. When I began high school in 1972 it was just five years after local schools had desegregated.
The downtown Neiman Marcus flagship was one of the first major Dallas businesses that broke with these practices. In 1961, the company desegregated its Zodiac Room, a swanky lunch spot frequented by Dallas elites. Later, they welcomed Black shoppers to come and buy clothes without restrictions.
October 2, 2026 at 4:56 PM
The downtown Neiman Marcus flagship was one of the first major Dallas businesses that broke with these practices. In 1961, the company desegregated its Zodiac Room, a swanky lunch spot frequented by Dallas elites. Later, they welcomed Black shoppers to come and buy clothes without restrictions.
Yeah, but the rich and poor in Finland are both white. We're forgetting that little American tradition called racism. When we desegregated the schools white people moved to different neighborhoods.
October 1, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Yeah, but the rich and poor in Finland are both white. We're forgetting that little American tradition called racism. When we desegregated the schools white people moved to different neighborhoods.
To be fair, nuclear weapons development started under the raving lefty who created Social Security and were used by the woke madman who desegregated the US military. Heaven knows the current Republicans are trying to reverse both of those accomplishments!
October 1, 2026 at 8:51 PM
To be fair, nuclear weapons development started under the raving lefty who created Social Security and were used by the woke madman who desegregated the US military. Heaven knows the current Republicans are trying to reverse both of those accomplishments!
Standards of living are massively better, we won WWII, ended malaria and many other disease in the U.S., education levels are much higher, we desegregated and had the civil rights movement, I guess he thinks that's shit.
October 1, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Standards of living are massively better, we won WWII, ended malaria and many other disease in the U.S., education levels are much higher, we desegregated and had the civil rights movement, I guess he thinks that's shit.
Racial #segregation is far from a uniquely American evil, and on #ThisDayInHistory in 1953, #communist boxer #LenJohnson faced it in the #OldAbbeyTaphouse in #Manchester, England. Refused service for being #Black, he organized a 200-strong picket of the pub that desegregated it.
September 30, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Racial #segregation is far from a uniquely American evil, and on #ThisDayInHistory in 1953, #communist boxer #LenJohnson faced it in the #OldAbbeyTaphouse in #Manchester, England. Refused service for being #Black, he organized a 200-strong picket of the pub that desegregated it.
I grew up as a lower-middle class kid attending public schools in Michigan that had been desegregated via court order. They were a mixed bag—often dysfunctional, sometimes extraordinary, etc.
September 30, 2026 at 1:52 PM
I grew up as a lower-middle class kid attending public schools in Michigan that had been desegregated via court order. They were a mixed bag—often dysfunctional, sometimes extraordinary, etc.
The state that gave us #Harry_S_Truman (The man from Independence) - a purported machine pol who lived by his fundamental principles, made a world-altering decision to end WWII, desegregated the military, & fired Douglas MacArthur; &, #Sen_Tom_Eagleton - a man who survived depression…
is lost 2 R’s
is lost 2 R’s
September 30, 2026 at 9:42 AM
The state that gave us #Harry_S_Truman (The man from Independence) - a purported machine pol who lived by his fundamental principles, made a world-altering decision to end WWII, desegregated the military, & fired Douglas MacArthur; &, #Sen_Tom_Eagleton - a man who survived depression…
is lost 2 R’s
is lost 2 R’s
I found this gem (finally) from WHAS-TV Louisville, KY. The date is from 1975 and the SCOTUS then said ALL public schools have to be desegregated.
WHAS TV 6pm News, September 10, 1975
YouTube video by Matthew Hilk
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September 30, 2026 at 3:05 AM
I found this gem (finally) from WHAS-TV Louisville, KY. The date is from 1975 and the SCOTUS then said ALL public schools have to be desegregated.
Forcefully desegregated American Baha'is and strongly encouraged interracial marriage.
Who's the real Prophet in all that?
Who's the real Prophet in all that?
September 30, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Forcefully desegregated American Baha'is and strongly encouraged interracial marriage.
Who's the real Prophet in all that?
Who's the real Prophet in all that?
When public pools began to be forcibly racially desegregated by law, white Americans just fully stopped going to them and instead built private pools with new middle class wealth. This kept private spaces segregated, but as a knock-on effect basically also barred lower classes at all
#books #pools
#books #pools
September 29, 2026 at 4:26 PM
When public pools began to be forcibly racially desegregated by law, white Americans just fully stopped going to them and instead built private pools with new middle class wealth. This kept private spaces segregated, but as a knock-on effect basically also barred lower classes at all
#books #pools
#books #pools
September 29, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Motley was the first Black woman to argue a case before the US Supreme Court & to be appointed a federal judge.
She argued 10 landmark civil rights cases before #SCOTUS & won 9 of them. Her victories expanded protections for peaceful protesters, desegregated public spaces & more.
What a legacy!
She argued 10 landmark civil rights cases before #SCOTUS & won 9 of them. Her victories expanded protections for peaceful protesters, desegregated public spaces & more.
What a legacy!
September 28, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Motley was the first Black woman to argue a case before the US Supreme Court & to be appointed a federal judge.
She argued 10 landmark civil rights cases before #SCOTUS & won 9 of them. Her victories expanded protections for peaceful protesters, desegregated public spaces & more.
What a legacy!
She argued 10 landmark civil rights cases before #SCOTUS & won 9 of them. Her victories expanded protections for peaceful protesters, desegregated public spaces & more.
What a legacy!
we love a desegregated community!
September 28, 2026 at 3:42 PM
we love a desegregated community!
The Catholic Church in Ohio I was raised in sent all their kids to Catholic school so they didn’t have to send their kids to
desegregated public schools, something else the Catholic Church has never addressed
desegregated public schools, something else the Catholic Church has never addressed
September 28, 2026 at 2:18 AM
The Catholic Church in Ohio I was raised in sent all their kids to Catholic school so they didn’t have to send their kids to
desegregated public schools, something else the Catholic Church has never addressed
desegregated public schools, something else the Catholic Church has never addressed
I went to an all black school in 1968, the year MLK Jr. was assassinated. The schools desegregated in 1970. We thought we were making headway on racism in the US. It is sad that racism remains such a grinding detriment to our potential.
September 27, 2026 at 3:52 PM
I went to an all black school in 1968, the year MLK Jr. was assassinated. The schools desegregated in 1970. We thought we were making headway on racism in the US. It is sad that racism remains such a grinding detriment to our potential.
the "little rock nine" desegregated a school in little rock in 1957, three years before ruby. ruby bridges wasn't the very first child. this does not diminish what she did in any way.
September 26, 2026 at 6:19 PM
the "little rock nine" desegregated a school in little rock in 1957, three years before ruby. ruby bridges wasn't the very first child. this does not diminish what she did in any way.
Meanwhile:
Clinton, Roma added to census 1st time.
Obama, desegregated my born this way so always prior conditions ass from the medical system.
Biden, did the most in one damn term.
Clinton, Roma added to census 1st time.
Obama, desegregated my born this way so always prior conditions ass from the medical system.
Biden, did the most in one damn term.
September 26, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Meanwhile:
Clinton, Roma added to census 1st time.
Obama, desegregated my born this way so always prior conditions ass from the medical system.
Biden, did the most in one damn term.
Clinton, Roma added to census 1st time.
Obama, desegregated my born this way so always prior conditions ass from the medical system.
Biden, did the most in one damn term.
fucking desegregated
September 25, 2026 at 5:11 PM
fucking desegregated
If Ike Eisenhower didn't believe in the rule of law, schools never would have been desegregated.
September 24, 2026 at 8:19 PM
If Ike Eisenhower didn't believe in the rule of law, schools never would have been desegregated.
No i agree bathrooms should be completely gender desegregated
September 24, 2026 at 2:21 PM
No i agree bathrooms should be completely gender desegregated