Certainly not The End of the Segregated Century
In January, Edward Glaeser and Jacob Vigdor of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research published a report on segregation entitled “The End of the Segregated Century: Racial Separation in America’s Neighborhoods, 1890-2010.” Its findings include: American cities are more integrated…
Bias and the death penalty
The bias and discrimination that exists in our society is rampant in our criminal justice system. So says Michelle Alexander in her newly released book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The book details how…
Study shows majority of states fail to teach the civil rights movement
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) recently released a study called “Teaching the Movement: the State of Civil Rights Education 2011” that suggests the majority of States are not adequately teaching the civil rights movement to children. The study compared…
