It's been 62 years since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling on school desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education, but a school district in Mississippi is only now fully desegregating their schools. On Friday, a federal court ordered the Cleveland School District to merge four schools in order to achieve meaningful desegregation for students. The small town of Cleveland is home to 12,000 residents who are largely divided by railroad tracks that separate east from west - as well as black from white. In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Debra Brown ordered the district to merge East Side High,...
- 5/17/2016
- by Erin Hill, @ErinHillNY
- PEOPLE.com
It's been 62 years since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling on school desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education, but a school district in Mississippi is only now fully desegregating their schools. On Friday, a federal court ordered the Cleveland School District to merge four schools in order to achieve meaningful desegregation for students. The small town of Cleveland is home to 12,000 residents who are largely divided by railroad tracks that separate east from west - as well as black from white. In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Debra Brown ordered the district to merge East Side High,...
- 5/17/2016
- by Erin Hill, @ErinHillNY
- PEOPLE.com
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A garden centre which advocated that men should make their wives "feel special this Christmas" by buying them a rotary clothesline has apologised. Hillier's brochure promoting festive gifts from the home and garden was reportedly sent to 900,000 homes and featured the £44.99 Vento lightweight aluminium device under the banner: "Make her feel special with a clothesline this Christmas." Margaret Green, from women's equality group Waits, told The Daily Telegraph that the brochure's advert was an "insult". She said: "I feel for any man that follows the brochure's advice because I don't think a clothesline is (more)...
- 11/28/2009
- by By Sarah Rollo
- Digital Spy
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