Why Busing Didn't End School Segregation
A 50-year-old program in Boston buses students of color from the city into more affluent, mostly white suburbs. But why didn't other place adopt this system of desegregation?
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This District May Close All Of Its High Schools; It's About Much More Than Money
The schools in Erie, Pa., have had money trouble for a while. To give his students a better shot, the superintendent wants to send all his high schoolers to the more wealthy, whiter suburban schools.
After 50-Year Legal Struggle, Mississippi School District Ordered To Desegregate
The town of Cleveland is divided by a railroad track — and its schools are divided by race. For 50 years, the district has said it will fix the problem; a judge says the schools will have to merge.
'One More' For Sinatra, Who Took A Stand In Gary, Indiana
Frank Sinatra was born 100 years ago. NPR's Scott Simon remembers a moment when the singer tried to stop a strike by white students in Gary, Indiana who didn't want their high school to be integrated.
Meet The California Family That Has Made Health Policy Its Business
On Medicare's 50th birthday, two brothers who helped get it off the ground tell their stories. A younger member of the Lee family is at the helm of Covered California, the state insurance exchange.
A Baltimore Civil Rights Icon Is Still Pushing To Help City's Young
Sixty years ago, Helena Hicks helped desegregate the city's lunch counters. In the wake of Freddie Gray's death, the 80-year-old has continued to advocate for Baltimore's poor, black residents.
Historian Says Don't 'Sanitize' How Our Government Created Ghettos
Richard Rothstein, who studies residential segregation in America, concludes: "Federal, state and local governments purposely created racial boundaries in these cities."
Landrieu's Loss Flips Lingering Holdout Of Democrats' 'Solid South'
In her runoff against Republican Bill Cassidy, incumbent Sen. Mary Landrieu, D.-La., didn't just lose — she was walloped. The win gave the GOP complete dominance of the Deep South in the Senate.