Brown v Board of Education News

Today in black history: Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall dies

By theGrio

12:44 PM on 01/24/2012

VIDEO - Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and its first African-American justice...
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Little Rock desegregation plans go back to court

By theGrio

9:02 AM on 09/19/2011

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - More than a half-century after federal troops escorted nine black students into an all-white school, efforts to desegregate Little Rock's classrooms are at another turning point...
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Kan. governor signs bill on Brown v. Board mural

By theGrio

5:02 PM on 05/17/2010

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Parkinson had the signing ceremony on the 56th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, named for a lawsuit challenging school segregation in Topeka...
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Three ways to preserve Brown v. Board's promise

By Damon Hewitt

2:23 PM on 05/17/2010

OPINION - The decades since Brown have given rise to a toxic mix of increased racial isolation in schools that are more segregated than they were 40 years ago...
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The sit-ins that changed America

By theGrio

12:06 PM on 02/02/2010

From The LA Times: Of the big events of the early civil rights movement, the sit-ins have always been the least understood and, yet, the most important for today's young activists...
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Black soldiers continue to fight for country and equality

By Mac William Bishop

10:30 AM on 11/11/2009

OPINION - The military, as an institution, is a reflection of the society that it serves. But is that reflection one we want to look at...
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Why it's time to talk about our children

By Michelle Bernard

9:55 AM on 09/20/2009

OPINION -- Fifty-four years ago, the late Thurgood Marshall via the Brown v. Board of Education decision, affirmed one of the core principals upon which this society is based: equality...
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Questions of racism also framed past hearings

By Stephen Menendian

8:02 AM on 07/15/2009

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor talks with Senate Judiciary Committee members Sen. John Cornyn, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) On May 26, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to be the nation's first Latina and only the third woman...
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Education: the last fight for civil rights

By Paul Brunson

9:56 AM on 06/23/2009

Modern day school segregation and the academic achievement gap looms as the last vestige of a nearly completed civil rights movement. If academic equality is our final battle, the saying 'last but not least' was never truer. Academic performance of Black, Latino and those of all races in lower socio-economic...
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