That's the title of David Kirp's opinion piece in this Sunday's New York Times. I'll begin with his punchline: School desegregation has been proven to...
Doug Kendall | Posted 05.17.2012
The conservative majority on the Roberts Court is weaponizing Brown vs. Board of Education to attack the very civil rights statutes that are essential for moving the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection toward fruition.
Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.15.2012
Let's assume a presidential candidate had come out against interracial marriage. How many of us would be inclined to vote for him or her? Until 1967, supporters of such a ban used pretty much the same theology-based arguments their ideological heirs use today to rail against same-sex marriage.
Warren J. Blumenfeld | Posted 05.11.2012
While many of our political leaders debate issues of marriage equality, I do not believe that the rights of minoritized people should be up for debate and should be settled on in the voting booth.
Raul González | Posted 05.04.2012
It is time that the ESEA were treated once again as a civil rights law focused on bringing excellent schools into every community.
Adam Goldstein | Posted 02.11.2012
It is time to end this bizarre practice that assumes judges who are competent to decide whether a man lives or dies for his crimes are incompetent to decide whether a school administrator crossed a line in a strip-search.
Maria Armoudian | Posted 02.11.2012
While many supporters of the Occupy demonstrators are agitated over public officials' growing demands that the Occupy settlers move off the occupied grounds, how might the Occupy movement move forward?
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 02.01.2012
Our public schools are resegregating, and many of the 73 percent of black students and 78 percent of Hispanic students who still attend predominantly segregated schools continue to suffer with tattered books, crumbling school facilities and too many teachers with low expectations for them.
The Huffington Post | Emmeline Zhao | Posted 11.30.2011
"Dismal." Likely not a word ever preferred in an educational setting, but the description the Southern Poverty Law Center found appropriate to ass...
The Washington Post | Hide This | Posted 08.20.2011
Half a century after many Virginia public schools shut their doors rather than accept black students, the state is offering college scholarships to co...
Eva Paterson | Posted 07.23.2011
As we mark the 57th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, we want to highlight three lessons we have learned from this monumental and hard-fought victory.
Sam Chaltain | Posted 07.17.2011
In today's America, when it comes to public education, have we allowed our five-digit zip codes to become the equivalent of a lottery ticket to a better future? Is this really who we wish to be?
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 06.07.2011
In three years time, it will have been exactly six decades since the Supreme Court ruled against school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, pu...
Eva Paterson | Posted 05.25.2011
For almost 150 years, the 14th Amendment has been the backbone of civil rights law in America. Its protection of individual rights for all -- from fre...
Benjamin Todd Jealous | Posted 05.25.2011
The yearning to return to the antebellum South is not just being reflected in this year's celebration of the Confederacy, but also in growing efforts to reverse years of successful school integration.
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove | Posted 05.25.2011
The radical faith that inspired the prophetic leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr. is now igniting a contemporary civil rights movement in North Carolina, led by the Rev. William J. Barber.
Claudia Ricci | Posted 05.25.2011
Eric Schneiderman, who is poised to become New York State's next Attorney General in just a few short weeks, has been interviewing a lot of lawyers la...
Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011
For years I marveled at the military's leadership in advancing the cause of civil rights within the ranks. It now has an opportunity to prove that the institution can be hospitable and welcoming to openly gay men and women.
Richard T. Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011
By the 1960s, the world was out of joint again, prompting the rise of the Christian Right.
Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011
Fred Kaplan's enlivening 1959: The Year Everything Changed, argues that the '50s -- a decade that saw the invention of the microchip and the creation of explosive art -- has been misunderstood in hindsight.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011
In 1957, Jefferson Thomas and eight fellow Black students at Little Rock High School made history as they helped make our nation live up to the promise of Brown v. Board of Education, the end of legal segregation in public schools.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011
There are no rational arguments for denying gay Americans the same rights that straight Americans already enjoy. We'll probably hear more irrationality from the right on this issue, but it won't last. They've already lost.
Will Durst | Posted 05.25.2011
When Chief U.S. District Justice Vaughan Walker overturned California's Proposition 8, he loosed the bonds. Broke the chains. Raised a rainbow flag. And reopened a can of worms the size of the Louisiana Purchase.
Lynn Parramore | Posted 05.25.2011
In an ironic reversal, drawling southerners are trying to convince Yankees to be sensitive to the Jim Crow-shadowed past, while white school board members are giving the NAACP lessons on Brown v. Board of Education.
Tamara N. Holder | Posted 05.25.2011
America's public school system is in shambles, and the poorest kids are the only ones underneath the rubble. Now, it is the duty of the administration to fix America's destroyed public education system.
Dr. Lawrence M. Schall | Posted 05.21.2012