School Segregation in 2018 with Nikole Hannah-Jones
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast
English - July 31, 2018 07:00 - 58 minutes - 54.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 7.6K ratingsPolitics News Society & Culture chris hayes government politics nbcnews msnbc withpod the chris hayes podcast why is this happening? Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Why are American schools resegregating? Over 60 years since the Brown v. Board of Education ruling forced schools to integrate, the nation is witnessing schools become increasingly segregated. So how did we get to this point? Nikole Hannah-Jones has firsthand knowledge of the system. Beginning in second grade, she was bussed to a wealthy, majority white school as part of a desegregation initiative in her home town. Now, she’s an award-winning investigative reporter writing for The New York Times magazine, doing extensive work on school segregation. In this episode Nikole Hannah-Jones explains why we continue to see segregation in the classroom and how, if at all, the education system can truly desegregate.
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