Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (2007) — Bunk History

Home owners Loan Corporation map of Detroit.

Beyond Brown: The Failure of Desegregation in the North and America’s Lingering Racial Fault Lines

On the ongoing legal struggle for educational and racial equality across the United States.

by Michelle Adams via Literary Hub on January 15, 2025

Black and white photo of African American girl attending a white segregated school

A Powerful, Forgotten Dissent

Among the thousands of cases the Supreme Court has decided, only a handful of dissenting opinions stand out.

by Linda Greenhouse via New York Review of Books on September 15, 2022

‘Brown’ at 70

The rhetorically modest but functionally powerful ruling that ended segregation shouldn’t be misused to forestall other efforts at racial equality.

by Randall Kennedy via The American Prospect on May 17, 2024

illustration of a hand with a shredded ballot

John Roberts’s Long Game

Is this the end of the Voting Rights Act?

by Linda Greenhouse via The Atlantic on September 20, 2022

Illustrative grid rid of students with the faces represented by various colors, fabric patterns, and textures.

How Affirmative Action Was Derailed by Diversity

The Supreme Court has watered down the policy’s core justification: justice.

by Richard Thompson Ford via The Chronicle of Higher Education on September 2, 2022

When Government Drew the Color Line

A review of "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America."

by Jason DeParle via New York Review of Books on February 11, 2018

Elder M. Andrew Robinson-Gaither demonstrates for reparations for slavery.

The Thirteenth Amendment and a Reparations Program

The amendment, which brought an end to slavery in the U.S., could be used to begin a national debate on reparations.

by Ramsin Canon via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on July 12, 2014

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