By john a. powell & Stephen Menendian (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Segregation as a problem is gripping our cultural consciousness for the first time in a long while, beyond the domain of social scientists and city planners. David Simon (the creator of the acclaimed HBO series, “The Wire”) wrote and produced a mini-series for HBO this past year, … [Read more...] about “Segregation in the 21st Century” by john a. powell & Stephen Menendian (January-March 2016 Issue)
Civil Rights History
“Neighborhood Schools – an Etymology” by Michael Hilton (November-December 2015 Issue)
By Michael Hilton (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The term “neighborhood schools” has a long history in struggles over school integration, often used as a rallying cry by enclaves of well-resourced, usually white citizens to protect the uniform character of their schools and combat desegregation (Hannah-Jones, 2014; Williams, 2015). Following the 1954 Brown … [Read more...] about “Neighborhood Schools – an Etymology” by Michael Hilton (November-December 2015 Issue)
“The Making of Ferguson” by Richard Rothstein (November-December 2014 P&R Issue)
By Richard Rothstein (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) It is a familiar story. Police viciously assault or kill an unarmed African American man or boy. The black community rises up in protest, often in violent riots. Among many others, it is a 1919 story (Chicago), a 1943 story (Detroit, Harlem), a 1967 story (Newark and over a hundred more), a 1992 story (Los … [Read more...] about “The Making of Ferguson” by Richard Rothstein (November-December 2014 P&R Issue)
“Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote” by Gordon A. Martin, Jr. (January-February 2012 P&R Issue)
By Gordon A. Martin, Jr. (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote In 1962 in Forrest County, Mississippi, only 12 of the 7,500 adult black citizens were permitted to register to vote. That year, I made my first trip to the Deep South as one of the trial lawyers of Robert Kennedy’s … [Read more...] about “Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote” by Gordon A. Martin, Jr. (January-February 2012 P&R Issue)
“Building a National Museum” by Lonnie G Bunch, III (November-December 2011 P&R Issue)
By Lonnie G Bunch, III (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Beginnings When construction starts on the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Fall of 2012, it will signal a beginning for some. For those of us who have been involved with the Museum’s development, however, the groundbreaking will be more like rounding the … [Read more...] about “Building a National Museum” by Lonnie G Bunch, III (November-December 2011 P&R Issue)