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The Supreme Court Decision That Kept Suburban Schools Segregated

ADW News - July 31, 2019

By Jon Hale, University of South Carolina America recently marked the 65-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education –...

In New Documentary, Atlanta’s First Black Broadcast Journalists Recall Their ‘Struggle Behind The Lens’

ADW News - July 5, 2019

By Amir Vera, AABJ Until late 2018, there hasn’t been an organized record of the first black journalists in Atlanta. There was no record of the...

New Laws Help Rural Black Families Fight for Their Land

ADW News - June 24, 2019

By April Simpson, Staff Writer, Stateline When Karama Neal’s mother passed away in 2010, Neal became one of more than 150 heirs to 160 acres...

VIEWPOINTS: The Advance of School Privatization

ADW News - June 21, 2019

By Wornie Reed, Ph.D. The march toward privatization of public schools is long and relentless. I date it from the famous article by the conservative...

Reparations: A Timeline and Distillation

ADW News - June 17, 2019

There has been a long, historical and geographically varied movement on the issue of Reparations that preceded contemporary entry and discourse -- 129 years...

African American Troops Fought Germans and Racism on D-Day

ADW News Desk - June 6, 2019

It was the most massive amphibious invasion the world has ever seen, with tens of thousands of Allied troops spread out across the air...

Grand Jury Records on Mass Lynching Once Again Before Court

ADW News - June 6, 2019

A federal appeals court plans to rehear arguments on unsealing the transcripts from grand jury proceedings in the unsolved lynching of two black couples...

The Racist Roots of American Policing: From Slave Patrols to Traffic Stops

ADW News - June 5, 2019

By Connie Hassett-Walker, Kean University Outrage over racial profiling and the killing of African Americans by police officers and vigilantes in recent years helped give...

Gentrification: Atlanta’s Displacement Game

ADW News - May 9, 2019

By George Lefkowicz and Tyler Jones In 2008, the housing market in the United States plummeted. A build up in subprime real estate loans caused...

From ‘40 Acres and a Mule’ to LBJ to the 2020 Election, a Brief History of Reparation Promises

ADW News - April 24, 2019

By John Torpey, Presidential Professor of Sociology and History, Graduate Center, City University of New York Does the United States owe descendants of slaves reparations? It’s...

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